Deborah Barros Leal Farias is a Brazilian-born Senior Lecturer at UNSW Sydney's School of Social Sciences, where she teaches Politics and International Relations. She has a multidisciplinary background: PhD in Political Science from UBC (Canada), as well as an MA in International Relations, and bachelor degrees in Economy and in Law from Brazilian institutions. Her current main topics of interest involve the importance and impact of categorizing the world (categories, labels, dichotomies, thresholds, benchmarks, etc.), as well as Brazilian politics and populism. Related to the former, she has created a public database (www.developingcountries.info) comparing how +60 international organizations and multilateral treaties define the developing/developed dichotomy, and individually detailing how all countries are classified under over a dozen selected lists.