Bruno holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He also has a Bachelor's degree in International Relations and an M.Sc. in Business Administration, both from the University of São Paulo (USP). He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow and Associate Researcher at Luigi Bocconi University (Milan, Italy).

He has taught courses on Strategic Management and Microeconomics at the Trulaske College of Business at the University of Missouri and at the Central Methodist University.

He studies patterns of institutional and organizational diversity. He serves as an associate editor of the RAUSP Management Journal and is a member of the review board of the European Management Review.