Production Engineering Professor at Cefet-RJ, Brazil. Prof. Paim was Visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University; is Business Process Management Journal Editorial Board Member; is author of the book: Process Management: think, execute and learn; and his main focus - in education, research and consulting - is process management.

Prof. Rafael Paim has a degree in Production Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Brazil and MSc. and PhD in Production Engineering from COPPE / UFRJ.. He was a visiting scholar in Carnegie Mellon University - CMU and part of the doctorate was held at this university.

Nowadays, Rafael Paim is Professor of the Department of Production Engineering of the Federal Center for Technological Education Celso Suckow da Fonseca Cefet-RJ and collaborative professor of Poli / COPPE/ UFRJ. 

He is a senior professional on Process Management. For the past 15 years, was being acting on over 100 consulting and research projects related to processes management and governance, information technology, services, and organizational design. Prof. Paim was trained over 2000 professionals, in more than 80 in-company and opened process management courses in Brazil.

In 2002, Prof. Paim has lead a spin-off from COPPE/UFRJ and created a process management consulting firm, called Enjourney Consulting.

In 2009, Prof. Paim published the book "Process Management: think, execute and learn", since 2007 is editorial board member of the Business Process Management Journal and was published more than 30 papers and articles on the topic.

Prof. Paim is the GEOS Leader, focusing on research and professional teaching. GEOS is a Group of Operations and Systems Management and Engineering at Cefet-RJ,