Péricles Gonçalves is a PhD candidate in Regulatory Law at FGV Rio de Janeiro Law School, where he has been a research scholar in Law and executive coordinator of the Research Centers project and the Regulation by Numbers project. His research interest is on risk regulation. His doctoral thesis aims to develop a model of risk-based regulation for the Brazilian reality based on the notion of risk as a social construction. In his previous research project at FGV Rio de Janeiro Law School, he examined the role of insurance companies as corporate risk regulators. He was a Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Irvine (2018) and he has been a lawyer since 2003.