Bárbara Oliveira has a Bachelor's degree in Public Relations from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2012), and in International Relations for the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (2013), both in Brazil.  For this degree she wrote her undergraduate thesis on "Political Instability and its consequences to the Development of Guinea Bissau".  From 2011 until 2014 she worked in international relations with a Brazilian multinational enterprise, having also worked at the Municipal Secretariat of International Relations in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.  Currently, she is engaged in the M1 programme "Gouvernance des Territoires, des Risques et de l'Environemment", in the Master GETEDELO at the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (a partner in the federal Université Paris-Saclay), in France.