Matías Franchini is Associate Professor of International Relations at Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Brasilia, Brazil.

He was a Visiting Researcher at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, under the academic advice of Robert O. Keohane and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of International Relations of the University of Brasilia. He is the author of several publications in the areas of environmental global governance, Latin American studies, and the international political economy of climate change.