2011 - 2013

BRAZIL INSTITUTE Report of Activities INSTITUTE TABLE OF CONTENTS

LEADERSHIP & VISION 1 11 MAJOR INITIATIVES

WOODROW WILSON 7 AWARDS 17 EVENTS LEADERSHIP & VISION

Message from the President of the Wilson Center Message from the Chair of the Advisory Council Message from the Director of the Brazil Institute Staff Scholars Advisory Council A Message from our President, Director, and CEO of the Wilson Center JANE HARMAN

During my two decades as a Member engaged dozens of Brazilian legislators of the US Congress, I traveled several with experts from the policy and times to Brazil to study our countries’ business worlds. The Brazil Institute shared interests in education, science is doing its part to improve on that and technology; energy and climate exchange of ideas, and I recently had change; international security the pleasure of opening – alongside cooperation; and the rule of law. I’ve Librarian of Congress James Billington witnessed firsthand how often our – a newly published report on the 2011 societies outpace our governments, Brazil-United States Judicial Dialogue. highlighting the way forward for These are just a few examples of the bilateral engagement. As an example, Brazil Institute’s contribution to an the Center’s annual symposia with ongoing conversation. the São Paulo Research Foundation (FASPESP) and a number of American Established in 2006, the Brazil universities brings together remarkable Institute serves as a lane of excellence scientific and scholarly research that for the Wilson Center, our nation’s experts from both nations are already living memorial to President pursuing – and pursuing together. Woodrow Wilson. The Center honors his memory by bridging his two Brazil’s growing middle class needs passions: scholarship and policy. We this kind of cooperation, and joint bring together thought and action – efforts in science, technology and policymakers, scholars and business innovation will be key to Brazil’s future leaders – in the hope that a frank economic success. Over the past three dialogue will build understanding, years, Brazilian Congressional Study stronger cooperation and better Missions on Innovation held at top public policy. universities in the US and UK have A Message from the Chairman of the Brazil Institute Advisory Board AMBASSADOR ANTHONY HARRINGTON The Advisory Council of the Woodrow mission is to develop creative approaches Wilson Center Brazil Institute, which to gauging and addressing public policy I have the honor to chair, brings challenges and to improve cooperation together prominent leaders in business, between Brazil and the US. We target journalism, scholarship, and public life the most pressing Brazilian issues and who help guide the work of the Institute. generate new thinking and understanding Recent events, as frustrating as they on issues of bilateral interest, from have been, have only strengthened our geopolitical and geoeconomic to judicial, conviction that both Brazil and the United social and environmental. States have much to gain from developing a better understanding of one another In the three-year period covered in this and creating opportunities for greater report – from 2011 to 2013 – bilateral cooperation – and a lot to lose by failing to cooperation in scientific and scholarly do so. History affirms that disagreements research and the advancement of between the two governments do not last, dialogue on innovation policies that because Brazilian and American societies brings together academic researchers have long been able to recognize that and entrepreneurs, business leaders and their national interests tend to converge members of the Brazilian Congress have and benefit from policies that unite the emerged as a main thematic focus of the two nations. Brazil Institute. These and other activities described in this report reflect the Since its inception, the Brazil Institute Institute’s programmatic aspirations for has distinguished itself as the preeminent the future, especially as Brazil approaches forum for analysis on Brazilian affairs and another presidential election - the seventh creative dialogue between stakeholders since the reinstatement of democracy - in US-Brazilian relations. The Institute and readies itself to confront the social offers a non-partisan environment and economic challenges that remain for key decision-makers and opinion- after the successes achieved over the past leaders from both countries to engage. Its two decades. A Message from the Director of the Brazil Institute PAULO SOTERO 2011 to 2013 was a period of growth and bilateral relations – a source of both consolidation for the Brazil Institute. hope and frustration in this period. After Through initiatives focused on science President Barack Obama’s successful and innovation policies, the Institute visit to Brasilia and Rio in 2011, the fostered knowledge and dialogue Wilson Center honored President Dilma between institutions and policy makers Rousseff, Brazil’s first female president, from Brazil, the United States and other with the Woodrow Wilson Award for nations. The first Brazilian Congressional Public Service. With the participation and Study Mission on Innovation launched a support of , the Brazilian conversation series between lawmakers, Ambassador to the United States, the academics, and business experts on Institute welcomed speakers from all Brazil’s competitiveness and sustainable branches of the Brazilian government growth. Our partnership with the São for an all-day conference that marked Paulo Science Foundation FAPESP President Rousseff’s visit to Washington showcased the research of Brazilian in April 2012. After the postponement of scientists and scholars and their the October 2013 state visit, we hosted colleagues abroad through FAPESP a conversation with Ambassador and weeks hosted in the US, the United Counselor of the Department of State Kingdom, China, and Spain. Thomas A. Shannon, an important voice in the bilateral dialogue. The Managing Our Planet series, in collaboration with George Mason This report reflects only part of the work University’s Environmental Science done by the Institute. In addition to public and Policy Department and the Wilson lectures, seminars and conferences, the Center’s Environmental Change and Institute offered briefings to journalists, Security Program, expanded our focus scholars, business executives, academic to include sustainability and resilience in leaders and students from Brazil and the a world threatened by climate change. US, serving as a bridge between the two largest economies and democracies of The Institute also focused on Brazil-U.S. the Americas. LEADERSHIP

SCHOLARS STAFF Carlos Eduardo Lins da Silva Cynthia J. Arnson Wilson Center Global Fellow, January 2014 Director, Latin American Program – Present Paulo Sotero Maritta Koch-Weser Director, Brazil Institute Wilson Center Global Fellow, January 2014- Present Michael Darden Gail Triner Program Assistant, Brazil Institute Wilson Center Fellow, September 2012 – May 2013 Anna Carolina Cardenas Leslie Bethell Program Assistant, Brazil Institute Senior Scholar, December 2011 – December 2012 W.E. (Ted) Hewitt Public Policy Scholar, April 2012 – May 2012 ADVISORY COUNCIL

CHAIR Hon. Anthony Harrington Chairman of the Management Committee, Albright Stonebridge Group

MEMBERS Dr. Leslie Bethell, Emeritus Professor, University of London Dr. Luis Bitencourt, Professor, National Defense University Mr. Antonio Britto, President, Interfarma Hon. Luigi Einaudi, President, San Giacomo Charitable Trust Dr. Carlos Eduardo Lins da Silva, Editor, Revista Politica Externa Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy,Senior Fellow, The United Nations Foundation Dr. Maria Herminia Tavares de Almeida, Professor, Universidade de São Paulo THE FOLLOWING COMPANIES ARE CORPORATE MEMBERS OF THE ADVISORY COUNCIL AES, ALCOA, ALCOA FOUNDATION, AMGEN, AMYRIS, BUNGE, CHEVRON, COCA-COLA, COTEMINAS, CUMMINS, EMBRAER, GERDAU, MERCK, RAIZEN WOODROW WILSON AWARDS The Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service is presented to individuals who have invested their time, talents, and resources to improving the lives and futures of others and in so doing have inspired us all. Recipients include policymakers, philanthropists, scientists, civic and religious leaders, and celebrities who have excelled in their fields while making a positive impact on their communities and the world at large. WOODROW WILSON AWARDS 2011

The Brazil Institute honored President her groundbreaking role as the first with the Woodrow woman elected to lead Brazil as well Wilson Award for Public Service at as her lifetime dedication to the a dinner held on September 20, 2011 advancement of equality at the Pierre Hotel in . and social justice in The event was co-chaired by Josué her country. Christiano Gomes da Silva, president of Coteminas, and John G. Melo, CEO of Amyris. The president was honored in recognition of President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, accepting the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service MAJOR INITIATIVES

FAPESP Week Congressional Study Mission on Innovation Brazil - U.S. Judicial Dialogue Climate Change Adaptation in Latin America and the Caribbean Managing Our Planet Outreach and Social Media FAPESP Week

Starting in October 2011, the Brazil Institute co-sponsored FAPESP Week Institute established a partnership 2012 in October, with seminars on with the São Paulo Research specific fields of scientific cooperation Foundation (FAPESP) to promote and which took place at the University of highlight the expanded cooperation Toronto, the Massachusetts Institute on science and innovation between of Technology, in Cambridge, and the United States and Brazil. A three the University of West Virginia, in day symposium was held at the Wilson Morgantown. FAPESP Week 2013 was Center as part of FAPESP Week, in held in November in three of North celebration of the Foundation’s 50th Carolina’s leading public research anniversary. A follow up symposium universities: UNC Chapel Hill, UNC titled “Brazilian Nature and Our Charlotte, and NC State Raleigh. Topics Scientific Partnerships” took place in such as health sciences, bioenergy, and February 2012 at Ohio State University, biodiversity were explored, opening in Columbus. As a result of the success space for agenda-setting in the Brazil- of the first symposium at the Wilson U.S. strategic partnership. Center in 2011, FAPESP and the Brazil 1. Dr. Henrique Brito Cruz, Scientific Director, FAPESP 2. Tom Lovejoy, Carlos Eduardo Lins da Silva, Celso Lafer, Ambassador Mauro Vieira, Paulo Sotero 3. FAPESP Week 2012, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4. Brazilian Nature and Our Scientific Partnership Exhibit, FAPESP Week 2012, University of West Virgina 5. Ron Strauss, Executive Vice Provost and Chief International Officer, UNC- Chapel Hill 6. FAPESP Week 2013, North Carolina State University, Raleigh

2011 50 YEARS OF SCIENCE IN BRAZIL AND CHALLENGES AHEAD October 24-26, 2011 Washington, D.C. http://www.fapesp.br/week2011/ 2012 2013 October 17-24, 2012 November 11-13, 2013 Washington, D.C.; Cambridge, MA; North Carolina Morgantown, WV; Toronto http://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/summary- http://www.fapesp.br/week2012/northamerica/ reports-fapesp-week-north-carolina-2013 Congressional Study Mission on Innovation

In April 2011, the Brazil Institute government, and industry, the mission organized and hosted the first annual aimed at promoting understanding Brazilian Congressional Study Mission about innovation policies and best on Innovation. The initiative practices. Beginning in April 2011, was held in partnership with eighteen members of the Chamber Brazil’s Pharmaceutical Research of Deputies and the Federal Senate and Manufacturers Association – took part in conferences hosted at the Interfarma, representing 42 companies Wilson Center, the Department of operating in Brazil. Through seminars State, and the Massachusetts Institute with experts from academia, of Technology. The second Brazilian Congressional Study Mission, with eleven senators and deputies in attendance, was held in Europe in 2011 April 2012. It opened with a seminar April 17-20, 2011 hosted by the Brazil Institute of King’s Washington, D.C., Cambridge College London. The third Mission took place in March 2013 between San 2012 Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. April 2, 2012 London Panels focused on the historical role of http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/ universities and research institutions, second-brazilian-congressional-study-mission- creative approaches to finance and innovation-to-europe R&D, interactions with the public sector, the role of the educational 2013 system and public research universities March 22 – 29, 2013 San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco among many more. http://wilsoncenter.org/event/third-brazilian- congressional-study-mission-innovation 1. Congressional Study Mission at the U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., April 2011 2. First Brazilian Congressional Mission on Innovation Publication, 2011 3. Federal Representatives and Senators at Kings College London, for second Congressional Mission on Innovation, 2012 4. Federal Representatives and Senators in San Diego, for the Third Congressional Study Mission on Innovation 5. Congressman and Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Maria Otero Brazil – U.S. Judicial Dialogue

On May 11 through 13, 2011, the with the objective of deepening the Brazil Institute, in partnership with understanding of the rule of law in the Law Library of Congress and the both countries. The dialogue was Georgetown University Law Center, preceded by a dinner reception hosted held the Brazil – U.S. Judicial Dialogue, at the official residence of the Brazilian bringing together a distinguished ambassador to the United States. The group of over thirty-five federal initiative was built upon a similar and legal scholars from the United exercise that took place in 1998, thanks States and Brazil for an important to the efforts of U.S. District Court comparative discussion on the for the District of Maryland workings of the judicial branches in the Peter J. Messitte, and Brazilian Federal hemisphere’s two largest democracies. Judge Ellen Gracie Northfleet, who The dialogue, hosted at the Library later became the first woman to be of Congress, paired Brazilian and elevated to the Brazilian Federal American judicial experts to discuss Supreme Court, both of whom were in a specific topic. Open dialogue took attendance and presented papers. place throughout the two day seminar 1. Brazil-U.S. Judicial Dialogue, Member’s Room of the Library of Congress’ Thomas Jefferson Building 2. Judge Diane Wood, Minister 3. Minister Ellen Gracie Northfleet, Judge J. Clifford Wallace, Minister 4. Ambassador Mauro Vieira, Minister Cezar Peluso, Chief Justice John Roberts at inaugural dinner Climate Change Adaptation in Latin America and the Caribbean

In addressing the emerging issue seminars since the beginning of the COLOMBIA in climate change adaptation in 2013 calendar year. Working in close February 19-20, 2013 Latin America and the Caribbean, partnership with USAID missions in the Wilson Center’s Brazil Institute the region, seminars have highlighted The first seminar, “Climate Change and Environmental Change and country specific issues related to Adaptation in Colombia: Direction Security Program, in partnership climate change adaptation while and Roles,” focused on the role and with the United States Agency for bringing together the public, private, responsibilities of institutions in International Development (USAID), and academic communities. climate change adaptation. Two has accomplished three successful leading experts, one from Argentina, and another from England, moderated the two-day seminar that brought together government and non- profit experts from all areas of the country. The second day consisted of a workshop on team building exercises with the objective of teaching natural disaster preparedness strategies, as well as creating sustainable plans for coastal cities.

BARBADOS May 9, 2013

A second seminar “Water Kathleen Mogelgaard in Panel in Barbados the Dominican Republic Management, Health and Climate Adaptation in Barbados,” took place Audience in Barbados Workshop invite in Bridgetown in close partnership with the University of the West Indies – Cave Hill. The seminar focused on water management, health and climate adaptation. Experts from Jamaica, Mexico, Brazil, and Barbados discussed country specific programs and how they could be transplanted to fit local needs. Experts from the World Health Organization, based in Barbados, discussed the parallels between climate change and public and vulnerable populations within Dominican Republic workshop health. A leading expert from the the Dominican Republic, speakers, Jamaica Water Authority highlighted who came from diverse backgrounds, infrastructure management followed were asked to bridge the gap between by a presentation by a Mexican adaptation strategies and how they can academic who highlighted the relate and eventually be implemented correlation between poverty, water to current situations. TheConsejo scarcity and communicable diseases. Nacional Para el Cambio Climático, an agency dedicated to the promotion of collaboration between the Dominican political and social societies to build DOMINICAN REPUBLIC comprehensive strategies, opened the September 27, 2013 seminar, providing a level of legitimacy and commitment to addressing “Climate Change and Vulnerable the impacts of climate change. In Populations: Case Studies in Urban addition, Kathleen Mogelgaard, a Policy and Public Health Adaptation” long time consultant for the Wilson featured speakers from the United Center’s Environmental Change and States, Mexico and the Dominican Security Program, ran a workshop Republic. Responding to the need to address issues of family planning for a better understanding of the and reproductive health and its correlation between climate change correlations to vulnerable populations. Managing Our Planet The Managing Our Planet series leading experts on issues ranging Mason University highlights the reach is developed jointly by the Brazil from the Arctic, the Brazilian Mata and contributes to the high quality of Institute, Environmental Change and Atlântica, and how public policy is the events. Due to the success of the Security Program and the George shaping climate change mitigation. series, members of Capitol Hill and Mason University. It is based on the The series attracts a strong audience their staffers have taken notice and premise that the impacts of humanity that engages the panelists on lively and have asked the Managing Our Planet on the environment (including natural in depth conversations on the issues. series to assist in the creation of a resources) are planetary in scale. The series of Hill briefings. series addresses planetary-scale The series is an example of the cross- problems and solutions. program collaboration in an effort to For a detailed list of past events please focus on climate change and issues of look at the Energy & Environmental Since 2011, the series has hosted 18 sustainability. The combined network Sustainability section starting on page 55 . unique seminars that bring together between the two programs and George Outreach and Social Media The Brazil Institute is actively involved outlets and has appeared on numerous in various media, governmental and television networks including Al academic forums in order to expand Jazeera, CNN en Español, CNN its mission and advance knowledge International, Rede Globo, Globo about Brazilian public policy and the News, CBN radio, BBC radio, CCTV, U.S.-Brazilian bilateral relationship. BBC Brasil, O Estado de S. Paulo, and The Financial Times. Sotero Brazil Institute Director, Paulo Sotero, recently authored an article on the has contributed numerous articles in incentives President Rousseff faces to both English and Portuguese to news change her foreign policy framework ahead of the October 2014 elections, The Huffington Post and published in titled, “Brazil in 2014: Will Rousseff Spanish by Infolatam. Change Course?” featured on CNN. During the protests that took place Additionally, the Brazil Institute in June and July, 2013, Paulo Sotero has produced various publications contributed various articles and on our events, including “Shaping interviews to VOA, CNI English, U.S.-Brazil Relationship after the ABC Univision, the Financial Times, Snowden Affair: A Conversation with The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Ambassador Thomas A. Shannon” and the Miami Herald, and BBC, among “Brazil’s Political Challenge: Building others. He also wrote a piece for the Consensus on an Economically Georgetown Journal of International Sustainable Strategy.” Affairs on “Brazil’s Stunted Revolt.” In The Brazil Institute actively uses social addition, Paulo Sotero contributed an media outlets, including Twitter, essay for the Encyclopedia Britannica Facebook and the Brazil Portal, a and a chapter in Laying the BRICS comprehensive news aggregator. The of a New Global Order titled, “Brazil Brazil Institute’s increased social media and the BRICS: A Challenging Space presence has led to a rise in viewership for Global Relevance and Reform of and followers, including over 4,300 an Obsolete World Order.” Sotero’s Twitter followers, 1000 Facebook likes, Wilson Center Policy Brief, “Pursuing and an average of over 14,000 monthly a Productive Relationship between views for the Brazil Portal. the U.S. and Brazil,” was featured in EVENTS

THE BRAZIL INSTITUTE convened numerous conferences with internationally renowned scholars, policy-makers, executives, and experts from the United States, Brazil, and the rest of the world, as well as teaming up with other leading programs at the Wilson Center. Events are broken down by categories and are in reverse chronological order. Please note that panelists’ positions reflect their titles at the time the events took place. Marco Aurélio Maia

December 4, 2013 Cosponsors: Brazil-U.S. Business Council Speakers: ◊ Marco Aurélio Maia, Federal Representative for Rio Grande do Sul ◊ Jorge Tadeu Mudalen, Federal Representative for São Paulo ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute

Congressional Perspectives on Brazil-U.S. Relations

As Brazil-United States relations were meetings with the business community treading below potential, following in New York. On December 4th, the postponement of a state visit to the Brazil Institute of the Wilson Washington, D.C., by President Dilma Center and the Brazil-U.S. Business Rousseff, a multiparty delegation Council hosted a workshop with the of Brazilian Congressmen visited congressmen on Brazil-U.S. relations Washington in early December. They and the political and economic issues discussed Brazil’s economic and framing the campaigns for presidential, political outlook for 2014 and engaged gubernatorial, and congressional in dialogue on Capitol Hill, after elections of October 2014.

GOVERNANCE & DEMOCRACY Brazil’s Vision on Internet Governance: Managing Sovereignty, Privacy, and Technology

In response to NSA espionage leaks, Congress, could force all data centers Brazil is now developing a government- for internet services in Brazil to be run email service in an effort to protect located in-country, cutting Brazil off its communications. Furthermore, from cloud computing and big data an amendment has been put forth by applications. On October 23rd, the Rousseff to an important 2009 bill, Brazil Institute, in association with the known as the internet’s “Marco Civil,” Canada Institute, hosted a discussion which establishes rights and duties of with experts on the implications of Brazilian individuals, government and the postponed state visit and the businesses regarding internet use. The new internet regulatory framework amendment, which will be considered proposed by Brasilia. “with urgency” by the Brazilian

October 23, 2013 Paulo Sotero, Jamie Hedlund, and Carlos Eduardo Lins da Silva Cosponsors: Canada Institute Speakers: ◊ Jamie Hedlund, Advisor to the President, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ◊ Carlos Lins da Silva, Editor, Politica Externa ◊ Kellie Meiman, Managing Director, McLarty Associates ◊ Ricardo Sennes, Director and Partner, Prospectiva Consultoria Internacional ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute ◊ Wesley Wark, Associate Professor, University of Toronto

GOVERNANCE & DEMOCRACY The Meaning and Implication Professor Matthew Taylor and of the “Mensalão,” Brazil’s Judge Peter Messitte Largest Trial on Political Corruption

October 4, 2013 Cosponsors: São Paulo FGV Law School, American University College of Law Speakers: ◊ Marcelo Cavali, Judge, Federal Justice of Brazil ◊ Peter Messitte, Senior United States District Judge, District of Maryland ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute ◊ Matthew T. Taylor, Assistant Professor, School of International Service, American University ◊ Oscar Vilhena, Dean, Getulio Vargas Law School

On October 4th, the Brazil Institute, the Brazilian and American Supreme in partnership with the São Paulo Courts and how the different models FGV Law School and the Washington affected the outcome and management College of Law at American University of the trial. In addition, Professor convened a panel of experts from both Matthew Taylor of American University countries to debate the Mensalão trial School of International Service offered and its ramifications. Oscar Vilhena, a more academic perspective of the Dean of the Getulio Vargas Law School broader implication of the handling and Judge Marcelo Cavali of the state of the Mensalão and the construction of São Paulo, shared their views on of accountability in Brazil. The whether or not the Supreme Court’s discussion was moderated by Paulo decision will impact the core outcome Sotero, Director of the Brazil Institute, of the trial. Judge Peter Messitte, and counted with participants in both Senior United States District Judge of Washington and São Paulo. the District of Maryland juxtaposed

GOVERNANCE & DEMOCRACY Protests in Brazil: Why now? A Conversation with What do they mean? Congressman , Speaker July 3, 2013 Cosponsors: The Inter-American Dialogue of Brazil’s House of Speakers: Representatives ◊ João Augusto de Castro Neves, Analyst, Latin America, Eurasia Group On May 22nd, the Brazil Institute, ◊ Raul Juste Lores, Washington in partnership with the Brazil -U.S. Correspondent, Folha de São Paulo Business Council, hosted the President ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute of the Chamber of Deputies, Henrique Eduardo Lyra Alves, from the Held at the Inter-American Dialogue, Northeastern state of Rio Grande do this panel of experts discussed the Norte. A lawyer and veteran legislator massive demonstrations that spread first elected in the 1970s, congressman through 80 Brazilian cities in June and Alves is third in the line of succession July of 2013. Addressing the various after the President and the Vice grievances, stemming from corruption President. Alves shared an overview to dismal public services, Paulo on his responsibility of setting the Sotero, João Augusto de Castro Neves agenda of the Chamber and playing a and Raul Juste Lores made predictions pivotal role in shaping both domestic about the political implications of the and foreign policy. current wave of civil unrest.

May 22, 2013 Congressman Henrique Cosponsors: Brazil-U.S. Business Council Eduardo Alves Speakers: ◊ Henrique Eduardo Alves, Congressman and President of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies ◊ Monique Fridell, Executive Director, Brazil– U.S. Business Council ◊ Anthony Harrington, Chairman, Brazil Institute Advisory Board; CEO, Albright Stonebridge Group

GOVERNANCE & DEMOCRACY The Political Challenges of João Augusto de Brazilian President Dilma Castro Neves Rousseff

January 24, 2013 Cosponsors: Latin American Program Speakers: ◊ Maria Herminia Tavares de Almeida, Professor, University of São Paulo ◊ Fabio Cereda, Second Secretary, Embassy of Brazil ◊ Mauricio Moura, Visiting Scholar,The George Washington University ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute

Maria Herminia Tavares de Almeida, Brazil’s Challenging 2013 November 20, 2012 Professor of Political Science and the Outlook Speakers: ◊ David Fleischer, Professor Emeritus, Director of the International Affairs University of Brasilia Two landmark events in Brazil Institute, University of São Paulo, was ◊ João Augusto de Castro Neves, joined by Mauricio Moura, a visiting were discussed: the October 2012 Analyst, Latin America, Eurasia scholar from George Washington municipal elections and the Federal Group University and expert on public Supreme Tribunal’s handing down ◊ Matthew T. Taylor, Assistant of unprecedented guilty verdicts Professor, School of International opinion research, and Fabio Cereda Service, American University Cordeiro, a political science expert following Brazil’s largest political ◊ Clifford Young, Executive Director, IPSOS and diplomat serving at the Brazilian corruption scandal. The panel of Public Affairs Brazil Embassy in Washington. The panel specialists discussed the implication of ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute discussed the political challenges the electoral outcome and the political Dilma Rousseff faces in light of the and social future of the country. The presidential election in 2014 given her prospects of Brazil-U.S. relations in exceptionally high public approval and the aftermath of the U.S. presidential Brazil’s declining economic growth. elections were also touched upon.

GOVERNANCE & DEMOCRACY Brazil Forum Featuring November 26, 2012 Brazil and South America Antônio Anastasia, Co-Sponsor: Brazil-U.S. Business Council Speakers: At the end of 2011, Brazil’s GDP Governor of Minas Gerais ◊ The Honorable Antônio Anastasia, accounted for approximately 60 Minas Gerais is Brazil’s third-largest Governor of Minas Gerais percent of the total GDP of South ◊ Monique Fridell, Executive Director, Brazil- state in terms of economic output, America and close to 40 percent of the U.S. Business Council total output of all of Latin America. The and it is the second-largest Brazilian ◊ H.E. Mauro Vieira, Ambassador of Brazil to state in terms of population. Governor the United States Brazil Institute and the Latin American Anastasia is recognized as one of the ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute Program convened a panel of experts from the hemisphere to discuss regional most effective public managers in Brazil. Antônio Anastasia He discussed investment investment economic integration; specifically the opportunities in the state of Minas role of Mercosur and UNASUR. The Gerais. As part of the ongoing Brazil panel discussed how Brazil is viewed by Forum series, the Brazil Institute its neighbors and its role in the regional and the Brazil-U.S. Business Council and international arena. welcomed a select by-invitation only June 1, 2012 group for an off the record meeting Cosponsors: Latin American Program with Governor Anastasia. Speakers: ◊ Cynthia J. Arnson, Director, Latin America Program ◊ Sergio Fausto, Executive-Director, Instituto Brazil Forum Part of the ongoing Brazil Forum Fernando Henrique Cardoso ◊ Gustavo Fernández, Former Foreign Breakfast featuring series, governor Alkmin addressed Minister, Government of Bolivia Governor Alckmin investment and partnership ◊ Juan Estebán Orduz, President & CEO, opportunities in the state of São Paulo Colombian Coffee Federation, Inc. June 15, 2012 as well as the challenges facing those ◊ Ana Maria Sanjuán, Senior Advisor, Andean Cosponsors: Brazil-U.S. Development Corporation, Venezuela Business Council looking to invest in Brazil’s largest ◊ Ricardo Sennes, Director and Partner, Speakers: state in terms of economic output. Prospectiva Consultoria Internacional ◊ , Governor, ◊ Antonio Simões, Under-Secretary for South State of São Paulo, Brazil America, Brazilian Ministry of External Relations ◊ Juan Gabriel Tokatlian, Professor, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Argentina ◊ Juan Gabrial Valdes, Former Foreign Minister, Government of Chile ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute GOVERNANCE & DEMOCRACY A Conversation with Governor Eduardo Campos, of the Brazilian State of Pernambuco

January 19, 2012 Speakers: ◊ Eduardo Campos, Governor, State of Pernambuco ◊ Anthony Harrington, President and CEO, Albright Stonebridge Group; Chair, Brazil Institute Advisory Board ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute

Governor Eduardo Campos, of the Northeastern state of Pernambuco, had emerged as a leading player in Eduardo Campos Photo by Andréa Rêgo Barros/SEI Brazilian national politics. Brazil’s efforts to reduce regional inequalities January 11, 2012 as it internationalizes its economy and Why Brazilians Like Dilma Despite The Bad News Speakers: asserts its growing global presence and ◊ Diego Bonomo, Senior Director influence was the topic of governor for Policy, Brazil-US Business Campos’ presentation. The first year of President Dilma Council ◊ David Fleischer, Professor Rousseff’s administration was marked Emeritus, University of Brasilia by the worsening of the international ◊ Christopher Garman, Director, economic outlook, a sharp deceleration Eurasia Group of domestic economic growth and ◊ Kellie Meiman, Managing the multiplication of corruption Director, McLarty Associates scandals that cost the jobs of six of ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute her ministers, but yet she continues to rise in the popularity polls. A group of experts reflected on Brazil’s first female president’s performance and Kellie Meiman what lies ahead in the domestic and international spheres.

GOVERNANCE & DEMOCRACY Government Leadership in Brazil’s Minister of Foreign Sustainability Affairs, Ambassador Antonio de Aguiar Patriota December 14, 2011 Cosponsors: Environmental Change and “Continuity is not repetition,” Security Program said Foreign Minister Antonio de Speakers: Aguiar Patriota, when asked about ◊ Christopher Baumgartner, Sustainability the differences between Lula and Outreach and Communications Coordinator, Rousseff’s approach to foreign policy. George Mason University ◊ Martha Johnson, Administrator, General He also signaled that Itamaraty would Services Administration seek to consolidate the diplomatic expansion and gains achieved under As the Administrator for the U.S. President Lula’s term. Minister General Services Administration Patriota, a former ambassador (GSA), Martha Johnson is responsible to Washington, returned to the for annual government purchases Wilson Center to speak on President of over $65 billion, and more than Rousseff’s foreign policy strategy and 360 million square feet of federal international engagement. real estate. She discussed GSA’s initiative to aggressively pursue a zero May 31, 2011 environmental footprint (ZEF) that Speakers: will reduce waste, support innovation, ◊ Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Brazilian and boost efficiency across federal Ambassador to the United States buildings, operations, and acquisition. ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute

GOVERNANCE & DEMOCRACY Participatory Governance Brazil’s Truth Commission and Decentralization: A Comparative Study in Programs and Outcomes

May 10, 2011 The proposed creation of a Truth regime, including those committed Cosponsors: Comparative Urban Studies Commission in Brazil to investigate by agents of the state. Experts on the Project Speakers: human rights violations committed topic, including two former cabinet ◊ Frank Fischer, Professor, Division of Global during the military regime has members charged with the Human Affairs and Bloustein School of Planning and generated great interest and Rights portfolio, debated the issue. Public Policy, Rutgers University controversy. A Law of Amnesty ◊ Archon Fung, Ford Foundation Professor adopted by the Brazilian Congress March 22, 2011 of Democracy and Citizenship, Harvard Cosponsors: Comparative Urban Studies University in 1979 covered all crimes related Project ◊ Stephanie McNulty, Assistant Professor of to the armed resistance against the Speakers: Government, Franklin and Marshall College ◊ Sergio Fausto, Executive-Director, Instituto ◊ Brian Wampler, Associate Professor, Fernando Henrique Cardoso Department of Political Science, Boise State University ◊ Manuela Lavinas Picq, Loewenstein Fellow, Amherst College Sergio Fausto ◊ Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, Over the past twenty years, multiple Commissioner Inter-American forms of participatory governance have Commission on Human been used across the world to increase Rights; Former Secretary of State for Human Rights, Cardoso the voice of citizens in state decision- Administration making processes. Panelists shared ◊ Paulo de Tarso Vannuchi, Former Minister case studies, theoretical approaches, of Human Rights, Lula Administration and methodologies used to determine ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute the impact of participatory governance on public policies, rights deliberations, democracy, citizen learning, and improvements in social well-being.

GOVERNANCE & DEMOCRACY Leslie Bethell and Luigi Einaudi

March 10, 2011 Speakers: ◊ Leslie Bethell, Senior Scholar, The Wilson Center; Emeritus Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford University ◊ Luigi Einaudi, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, National Defense University

Brazil in Regional and Global History

Senior Scholar of the Brazil Institute, and the world and why since the end Leslie Bethell, presented, with of the Cold War both thinking and commentary from former OAS policy has changed, allowing Brazil ambassador and board member Luigi to become a significant player in both Einaudi, a paper that examines what regional and global affairs for the first Brazilians have, in the past, thought time. about the country’s place in the region

GOVERNANCE & DEMOCRACY Goodbye, Brazil, a Global Beyond Smart Cities: How Perspective on Brazilian Cities Network, Learn and Immigration Innovate

May 31, 2013 May 24, 2012 Speakers: Cosponsors: Program on America and the ◊ Maxine L. Margolis, Author and Professor Global Economy, Comparative Urban Studies Emerita of Anthropology, University of Speakers: Florida; Adjunct Senior Research Scholar, ◊ Tim Campbell, Chairman of the Board, Institute for Latin American Studies, Urban Age Institute Columbia University ◊ Neal Peirce, Citiscope Project and ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute Washington Post Writers Group ◊ Fernando Rojas, Lead Public Sector The Brazil Institute hosted a Specialist, conversation with Maxine L. Margolis, author of “Goodbye, Brazil,” which To achieve the real promise of smart examines how Brazilian immigrants, cities – that is, to create the conditions largely from the middle rungs of of continuous learning and innovation Brazilian society, have negotiated that has led cities likes Seattle, their ethnic identity outside Brazil. Barcelona, Ahmedabad and Curitiba Margolis argues that Brazilian society to keep pace with economic change – abroad is characterized by the absence we need to understand what is below of well-developed, community-based the surface of smart and connected institutions – with the exception of places. A panel discussed innovative thriving, largely evangelical Brazilian and effective methods for urban churches. development.

SOCIETY & CULTURE A Conversation with Simon Is Rio’s Tough Love Strategy Schwartzman on Brazil’s against Violence Working? New Social Agenda

February 22, 2012 In 2008 with crime and violence Speakers: reaching asphyxiating levels in slums ◊ Simon Schwartzman, Former Wilson Center Fellow; Senior Researcher, Instituto and surrounding suburbs of Rio de de Estudos do Trabalho e Sociedade Janeiro, an ambitious program was ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute implemented with the goal of taking the city back from drug trafficking A leading Brazilian social scientist and gangs and militias of vigilantes former Wilson Center Fellow, Simon through introducing the newly Schwartzman, presented Brasil: A trained Pacifying Police Units. A Nova Agenda Social, a seminal volume panel of experts examined the first he organized with economist Edmar comprehensive survey of the impact of Bacha on the challenges an emerging the UPPs. Brazil faces in four major areas of public policy: health, education, social security and income, and public security.

December 13, 2011 Cosponsors: Latin American Program, Comparative Urban Studies Project Speakers: ◊ Amisha Miller, Research and Policy Manager, Endeavor ◊ Mauricio Moura, Visiting Scholar, George Washington University ◊ Janice Perlman, Founder & President, Mega-Cities Project Amisha Miller ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute

SOCIETY & CULTURE The Unconquered: In A New Approach to Citizen Search of the Amazon’s Last Security in Brazil: Rio’s Uncontacted Tribes Pacifying Police Units

Writer and photographer Scott Two high-level officials from the State Wallace, on assignment for National Secretariat of Security in Geographic magazine, undertook discussed the ongoing pacification a three month journey through programs in the favelas and the state the Javari Valley Indigenous Land. government’s attempts to implement Wallace returned to the Wilson Center a two-step strategy of reestablishing to discuss and present his book on the authority in the areas, and successfully Flecheiros, or Arrow People, of the rooting pacification programs. Amazon. November 21, 2011 Cosponsors: Environmental Change and Security Program, Latin American Program Speakers: ◊ Scott Wallace, Public Policy Scholar; Independent Writer Scott Wallace and Photographer

Paulo Sotero, Roberto Alzir das Chaves, and Antonio Roberto March 16, 2011 Cesario de Sa Speakers: ◊ Roberto Alzir das Chaves, Senior Public Security Official, Rio de Janeiro State Public Security Secretariat ◊ Antonio Roberto Cesario de Sa, Senior Public Security Official, Rio de Janeiro State Public Security Secretariat ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute

SOCIETY & CULTURE A Conversation with Ambassador Thomas A. Shannon

On December 19th, the In this latest capacity, he December 19, 2013 Brazil Institute had the honor helped reshape the bilateral Speakers: ◊ Ambassador Anthony Harrington, of welcoming Ambassador relationship, building high Chairman, Brazil Institute; Chairman of Shannon to the Wilson Center level dialogue mechanisms, the Management Committee, Albright for a conversation on the focusing on common domestic Stonebridge Group outlook of Brazil-US bilateral priorities and increasingly ◊ Jane Harman, Director, CEO, and President relations and issues related shared global understandings, of the Wilson Center ◊ Ambassador Thomas A. Shannon, to his new role at the State promoting commerce, Counselor of the Department of State Department. Ambassador investment, tourism, and Shannon has been directly facilitating engagement involved in the U.S. between our civil societies. In government dialogue with the closing months of his tenure, Brazil, including as Special he also dealt with the fallout Assistant to the President, from the Edward Snowden Assistant Secretary for Western allegations of surveillance, Hemisphere Affairsincluding the eventual and, most recently, postponement of President as President Dilma Rousseff’s planned State Barack Obama’s Visit. Ambassador Shannon Ambassador to Brazil. continues to be a strong advocate of a deeper and broader dialogue between the two governments, and remains convinced that American and Brazilian interests are more convergent than they are divergent, as illustrated by the growing engagement of the two societies in the realms of business, defense, science,

education and culture. Ambassador Thomas Shannon

REGIONAL & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Cooperation in South America for the Promotion and Protection of Patents and Trademarks – the PROSUR Initiative

On April 3, the Wilson Center’s Brazil United States and Canada, who shared Institute, Canada Institute, Latin experiences of comparable initiatives American Program and Program on such as IP5, a forum of the world’s America and the Global Economy five largest intellectual property offices hosted a workshop with the heads – United States, European Union, of participating IP offices to review South Korea, China, and Japan - progress made by Prosur, as well as and the Vancouver Group, a similar plans for further collaboration. They collaborative project by Canada, the were joined by colleagues from the United Kingdom, and Australia.

April 3, 2013 Cosponsors: Canada Institute, Latin American Program, Program on America and the Global Economy Speakers: ◊ Jorge Avila, President, Brazilian National Institute of Industrial Property (INP) ◊ Konstantinos Georgaras, Director of Policy, International Affairs and Research Office, Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) ◊ Mark Guetlich, Senior Patent Counsel and Director of Patent Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office ◊ José Luis Londoño, Superintendent Delegate for Industrial Property, Colombia ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute

REGIONAL & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Will the Ongoing September 7, 2012 Nuclear Talks with Cosponsors: Middle East Program Speakers: Iran Yield Better ◊ Michael Adler, Public Policy Scholar; Former Results than Past Correspondent in Vienna for Agence France- Efforts? Presse News Agency ◊ Monica Herz, Director of International Mustafa Kibaroglu, Trita Parsi Relations, Catholic University of Rio de and Michael Adler Janeiro ◊ Mustafa Kibaroglu, Chair, International Relations Department Director, Center for In the second installment of the event, Eurasian Studies, Okan University, Istanbul the first taking place in February 2011, ◊ Trita Parsi, former Public Policy Scholar; a panel of experts discussed the history Founder and President, National Iranian- of international nuclear talks with American Council; author of A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama’s Policy with Iran; Director, Iran, providing analysis on why they International Security Studies were unsuccessful and what issues will ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute need to be addressed to achieve a deal.

A Round-table The Brazil Institute hosted the Deputy positioned to reflect on the state of on Brazil-U.S. Chief of Mission at the American Brazil- U.S. relations on the eve of two Relations with embassy in Brasilia to review the major political events: the October Todd Chapman bilateral, regional and multilateral elections for mayor in 6,664 Brazilian agenda between the two largest cities, and the U.S. presidential economies and democracies in the elections. Americas. DMC Chapman is uniquely

Todd Chapman

September 5, 2012 Speakers: ◊ Todd Chapman, Deputy Chief of Mission, United States Embassy in Brasilia ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute

REGIONAL & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Why the U.S. Is Not Destined Brazil-U.S.: Partnership for In partnership with the government to Decline: A Debate the 21st Century with Her of Brazil, the Brazil Institute and the Excellency Dilma Rousseff, Chamber of Commerce partnered to host the President of Brazil in her first official visit to the United States. May 2, 2012 April 9, 2012 Two separate tracks of conferences, Cosponsors: International Security Studies, Speakers: business and education, brought History and Public Policy Program ◊ Her Excellency Dilma Rousseff, President leaders of both sectors together. The Speakers: of Brazil event was opened by Secretary of State ◊ Robert Lieber, Professor of Government and International Affairs, Georgetown Hillary Clinton. University; author, Power and Willpower in the American Future: Why the U.S. is Not Destined to Decline. ◊ Michael Mandelbaum, Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Her Excellency Dilma Rousseff

Author Robert J. Lieber discussed his new book, Power and Willpower in the American Future: Why the US is Not Destined to Decline. He was joined on the panel by Michael Mandelbaum. Speakers discussed the role of the United States in the current world system and argued the case that ultimately, the ability to avoid serious decline is less a question of material factors than of policy, leadership, and political will.

REGIONAL & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS A Conference on U.S.-Brazil Relations on the Eve of President Dilma Rousseff’s First Visit to Washington, D.C.

Re-launched at the highest level by of the Brazilian President’s visit, just President Barack Obama’s visit to days before the opening of the Sixth Brasilia in March 2011, the dialogue Summit of the Americas, in Colombia, between Brazil and the United States adds to its importance. A half-day gained visibility and momentum seminar convened experts to discuss when President Dilma Rousseff visited Brazil-U.S. issues and what lies ahead Washington on April 9th. The timing for the two countries.

March 12, 2012 Roberta Jacobson Speakers: ◊ Peter Hakim, President Emeritus, Inter- American Dialogue ◊ Anthony Harrington, former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil; Chairman, Brazil Institute Advisory Board ◊ Roberta Jacobson, Acting-Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, Department of State ◊ Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Western Hemisphere, Department of Treasury ◊ Carl Meacham, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Staff ◊ João Augusto de Castro Neves, Analyst, Latin America, Eurasia Group ◊ Julia Sweig, Director for Latin American Studies, Council on Foreign Relations ◊ Mauro Vieira, Ambassador of Brazil to the United States ◊ Daniel Restrepo, Senior Director for the Western Hemisphere, National Security Council ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute

REGIONAL & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS A Press Roundtable on The Americas and the World: President Dilma Rousseff’s Public Opinion and Foreign Visit to Washington Policy in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru

April 5, 2012 November 29, 2011 Speakers: Cosponsors: Mexico Institute, Latin American ◊ Christopher Garman, Director, Eurasia Program Group Speakers: ◊ Peter Hakim, President Emeritus, Inter- ◊ Kevin Casas-Zamora, Acting Director, Latin American Dialogue American Initiative, Brookings Institution ◊ João Augusto de Castro Neves, Analyst, ◊ Peter Hakim, President Emeritus, Inter- Latin America, Eurasia Group American Dialogue ◊ Michael Shifter, President, Inter-American ◊ Stephen Johnson, Director, Americas Dialogue Program, Center for Strategic and ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute International Studies ◊ Andrew Selee, Vice President for Programs and Senior Advisor to the Mexico Institute, Wilson Center The Inter-American Dialogue and ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute the Woodrow Wilson Center hosted a special press roundtable to discuss Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s A panel of experts discussed the first visit to Washington. Speakers launching of the new report The discussed the global economy, the Americas and the World which is an governance of the World Bank and ongoing research project carried out other international institutions, and every two years that aims to study the ongoing political relationship public opinion and political culture in between the two countries. the Americas on key issues in foreign policy and international relations.

REGIONAL & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Brazil, Argentina, and the A Forum on President Road to the NPT Obama’s Trip to Latin America

June 15, 2011 March 16, 2011 Cosponsors: Nuclear Proliferation International Cosponsors: Latin American Program History Project, The Cold War International Speakers: History Project ◊ Dan Restrepo, Special Assistant to Speakers: the President; Senior Director for the ◊ Luis Bitencourt, Senior Scholar, Professor Western Hemisphere, National Security of International Security, Center for Council Hemispheric Defense Studies, National ◊ Arturo Valenzuela, Assistant Secretary of Defense University; Visiting Professor, State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Georgetown University Department of State ◊ Christian Ostermann, Director, History and Public Policy Program, Wilson Center ◊ Matias Spektor, Assistant Professor, Two leading United States government Director for International Relations, officials discussed the President’s trip Fundação Getulio Vargas to Latin America and the implications ◊ Greg Thielmann, Senior Fellow, Arms Control Association for the hemisphere as well as what it meant for the region’s development and relations with the United States. For several decades Argentina and Brazil sought to develop their own indigenous nuclear programs and tried to resist the expansion of the global non-proliferation regime. Deep mutual suspicion coupled with status competition colored their relationship and their standing in the face of the major nuclear powers. Experts discussed how both countries have dealt with nuclear energy and the NPT.

REGIONAL & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Prospects for Brazilian- Craig Kelly, Carl Meacham, Carolina American Relations on the Costa, and Luis Bitencourt Eve of President Obama’s Visit to Brazil

President Barack Obama’s trip to Brazil introduced a new opportunity for engagement between America’s two largest democracies and biggest economies. Since the inauguration of President Dilma Rousseff, both leaders have attested to the importance of the bilateral relationship which is bound to grow in intensity and complexity in coming years. A group of experts and practitioners explored the state of the Brazilian-American dialogue.

February 28, 2011 Cosponsors: Latin American Program Speakers: ◊ Luis Bitencourt, Dean of Academic Affairs, National Defense University ◊ Carolina Costa, Senior Associate, McLarty Associates ◊ Luigi Einaudi, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, National Defense University ◊ Craig Kelly, Vice President, The Cohen Group, Former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil ◊ Carl Meacham, Senior Advisor, Senate Foreign Relations Committee ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute, Wilson Center ◊ Mauro Vieira, Brazilian Ambassador to the United States

REGIONAL & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS February 22, 2011 ◊ Robert S. Litwak, Vice President for A Reflection on the May Cosponsors: Middle East Program, Scholars and Academic Relations and 2010 Brazil-Turkey Nuclear International Security Studies Director, International Security Studies Speakers: ◊ Nizar Messari, Associate Professor of Initiative towards Iran ◊ Haleh Esfandiari, Director, Middle East International Affairs, Al Akhawayn University, Program, Wilson Center Ifrane, Morocco A panel of experts reviewed the ◊ Craig Kelly, Vice President, The Cohen ◊ Trita Parsi, Former Public Policy Scholar; diplomatic efforts Brazil and Turkey Group; Former Ambassador to Brazil Founder and President, National Iranian American Council led last year to bridge the differences ◊ Mustafa Kibaroglu, Chair, International between Iran and the international Relations Department and Director, Center ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute for Eurasian Studies, Okan University, community over Tehran’s nuclear Istanbul program. The failed Brazilian-Turkish attempt left many unanswered questions and raised new ones.

Mustafa Kibaroglu

REGIONAL & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 2013 Brazil Economic Conference

October 11, 2013 Cosponsors: Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce, Brazil-US Business Council

Top executives from the public and included Donna Hrinak, President of private sectors, fund managers, Boeing Brazil; Gary Spulak, President financial analysts, and representatives of Embraer Aircraft Holding, Inc.; from the academia and government David Neeleman, Chairman & CEO Mauro Vieira spheres met on October 11 to discuss of Azul Linhas Aereas Brasileiras; the future of Latin America’s largest Murilo Portugal, President of economy and the main challenges FEBRABAN; , CEO currently posed to its development. of Bradesco Asset Management; , Chairman of Paulo Sotero, Director of the Brazil Americas, J&F Investimentos Institute at The Woodrow Wilson and the Olympic Public Committee; Center; Geoff Dryer, Foreign Policy and Professor Luciano Coutinho, Correspondent at the Financial President of the Brazilian Development Times; and Marcos Troyjo, Bank (BNDES), were featured as Director of the BRICLAB/ keynote speakers. Other speakers Columbia University.

Luciano Coutinho

Donna Hrinak, David Neeleman and Monique Fridell

Henrique Meirelles

INNOVATION, TRADE & BRAZIL IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY The Outlook of Brazil’s The Reinvention of Brazil’s Economy in a Tough Political Largest City Season

September 20, 2013 June 18, 2013 Speakers: Speakers: ◊ Nelson Barbosa, Former Deputy Minister of ◊ Silvio Torres, Secretary, São Paulo Housing Finance of Brazil ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute ◊ José Roberto Afonso, Technical Consultant ◊ Philip Yang, President, URBEM to the Federal Senate of Brazil; Economist, BNDES ◊ Teresa Ter-Minassian, Former Fiscal Affairs Director, IMF On June 18th, the Brazil Institute welcomed Silvio Torres, São Paulo Housing Secretary, and Philip On September 20th, Dr. Barbosa Yang, president of URBEM, an discussed the outlook of the Brazilian institute active in the Casa Paulista economy as the nation embarks on development. Conceived as a public an intense political season leading private partnership, the project aims at up to presidential, gubernatorial and the construction of a mixed use urban congressional elections scheduled for fabric that combines 20,000 housing October 2014. Leading economists units for different income brackets, José Robert Afonso and Teresa Ter- retail and office spaces. Panelists Minassian provided commentary. A discussed how after decades of the so follow up publication with Barbosa’s called “doughnut” effect that created comments was released by the Brazil empty and often dangerous areas in Institute. potentially high valued parts of the city, Casa Paulista will induce the repopulation of those areas and a more efficient use of existing infrastructure.

INNOVATION, TRADE & BRAZIL IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Incentives and Challenges for Brazilian Private Sector’s Perspective on How to Improve Foreign Direct Investment in Competitiveness Infrastructure and Strategic Sectors in Brazil

The Brazil Institute, in partnership June 6, 2013 ◊ Kellie Meiman, Managing Director, McLarty Associates with the Brazil – U.S. Business Council Cosponsors: Brazil-US Business Council ◊ José Guilherme Reis, Lead Trade convened a conference aimed at Speakers: ◊ Erik Camarano, President, Brazil Economist, World Bank examining the causes and challenges Competitiveness Movement ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute that lie in the intersection of FDI and ◊ Monique Fridell, Executive Director, Brazil – infrastructure. The main question U.S. Business Council addressed was whether the Brazilian economy is attracting the right type On June 6, 2013 the Brazil Institute management skills at the federal level. of FDI necessary to contribute to in partnership with the Brazil- Kellie Meiman, managing director development throughout the country. U.S. Business Council convened a at McLarty associated offered a The discussion was moderated by workshop examining the causes of business sector perspective on Brazil’s Paulo Sotero, director of the Brazil low competitiveness at the state and competitiveness challenges in the Institute, featuring representatives private levels as well as strategies high technology sector, and from the private and public sectors as for improvement. The discussion José Guilherme Reis, lead well as academia. was moderated by Monique Fridell, trade economist at the Executive Director of the Brazil-U.S. World Bank provided an June 10, 2013 Business Council (BUSBC). Erik overarching view on industrial Cosponsors: Brazil-US Business Council Camarano, CEO of the Brazilian policy, the role of the private sector, Speakers: Competitiveness Movement (MBC) and the need for a restructuring of the ◊ Andres Beran, Vice President for Latin America, Fluor presented his organization’s views country’s competitiveness agenda. ◊ Otaviano Canuto, Senior Advisor on BRICS, and initiatives aimed at improving World Bank ◊ João Carlos Ferraz, Director, BNDES ◊ Christopher Garman, Director, Eurasia Group ◊ Ruben Kraiem, Partner, Covington & Burling ◊ Ricardo Ubiraci Sennes, Managing Partner, ◊ Alexandre Meira da Rosa, Manager of Prospectiva Consultoria Infrastructure and Environment Sector, Inter- ◊ Arturo Valenzuela, Professor, Georgetown American Development Bank University

INNOVATION, TRADE & BRAZIL IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY How to Improve Brazil’s Industrial Growth and Export Performance

The Brazil Institute, in partnership years (2003-2010), while improving with the Program on America and the the productivity and competitiveness Global Economy, convened a seminar of the economy. The discussion on to examine the causes of the negative “How to Improve Brazil’s Industrial growth trend and what needs to be Growth and Export Performance” done to reverse it. The stated objective was moderated by the Brazil Institute’s of the government of President Dilma director Paulo Sotero. World Bank Rousseff is to return to the average economists José Guilherme Reis and 4% annual growth from the Lula Otaviano Canuto presented the main findings of their policy research report: Brazilian exports: climbing down a competitiveness cliff. Kent Hughes, the José Guilherme Reis director of the Program on America and the Global Economy shared his views on the current Brazilian economic challenges and made some parallels with the competitiveness problems faced by the United States.

February 12, 2013 Cosponsors: Program on America and the Global Economy Speakers: ◊ Otaviano Canuto, Vice President and Head for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network, World Bank ◊ Kent Hughes, Director, Program on America and the Global Economy ◊ José Guilherme Reis, Lead Trade Economist, World Bank ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute

INNOVATION, TRADE & BRAZIL IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Relations with China from the Perspectives of Brazil, U.S. and Canada Global Businesses

Since 2009, when China became Dilma Rousseff. This panel focused on Brazil’s strongest trading partner, the presence of Brazilian companies relations between the two countries in China and the changing pattern of have grown in both visibility and Chinese interests and investments in importance. Beijing was the first Brazil, from exporter of manufactured foreign capital, outside South products to investor in industrial America, to be visited by President plants and infrastructure projects.

October 12, 2012 Cosponsors: Canada Institute, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States Speakers: ◊ Sergio Amaral, President, China-Brazil Business Council; former Deputy Foreign Minister ◊ Nelson Cunningham, Managing Partner and Co-Founder, McLarty Associates ◊ Erin Ennis, Vice President, U.S.-China Business Council ◊ Claudio Frischtak, Consultant, China-Brazil Business Council ◊ Richard Lapper, Editor, Brazil Confidential, Financial Times ◊ J. Stapleton Roy, Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States; Minister and former Ambassador to England and France ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute

Sergio Amaral

INNOVATION, TRADE & BRAZIL IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY A Private Sector Perspective New Directions in Brazil’s on Brazil’s Energy and Innovation System: Lessons Infrastructure Challenge for the Global Economy?

Central to Brazil’s goal to achieve May 16, 2012 higher and more sustainable rates of Speakers: ◊ W.E. (Ted) Hewitt, Public Policy Scholar; economic growth is the execution of Professor of Sociology, University of ambitious state and federal plans aimed Western Ontario in London, Canada at expanding energy and infrastructure capacity. Carlos Cavalcanti, director of FIESP, provided an overview of Brazil Institute’s Public Policy policy, energy and infrastructure Scholar Ted Hewitt spoke on Brazil’s markets in Brazil. Some topics innovation system. The triple helix of discussed were: infrastructure government, university and industry integration in South America, the R&D capacity and its role in promoting impact of the sustainability agenda, acknowledged national success in the and the implications of these issues Carlos Cavalcanti, Reeve Woldford, high technology sector (most notably Christopher Garman on Brazilian foreign policy. in alternative energy, aerospace, and agricultural biotechnology) has been

July 10, 2012 the subject of considerable debate over Cosponsors: Brazil-U.S. Business Council the past years, with opinions varying Speakers: greatly on its overall efficacy regarding ◊ Carlos Cavalcanti, Director of Energy and return on investment. Infrastructure, Federation of Industries, State of São Paulo ◊ Christopher Garman, Director, Eurasia Group ◊ Reeve Woldford, Managing Director for Latin America, Altrius Group ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute

INNOVATION, TRADE & BRAZIL IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Is Brazil’s New Industrial Brazil Forum Luncheon Policy Working? Featuring Senator Richard D. Lugar

Launched in August 2011 by President December 2, 2011 Dilma Rousseff, the “Greater Speakers: Brazil Plan” focuses on increasing ◊ Richard D. Lugar, U.S. Senator (R-IN) productivity and overcoming the decline in participation of the industrial Senator Lugar, the Republican leader sector in the country’s economy. The of the Foreign Relations Committee president of the Brazilian Agency for and a longtime advocate of furthering Industrial Development (ABDI), and the relationship between the United an expert panel discussed the future States and Brazil took part in of the Brazil Plan and the industrial another Brazil Forum luncheon, and sector. spoke about advancing the agricultural ties between the two countries.

Mauro Borges Lemos

March 29, 2012 Speakers: ◊ Christopher Garman, Director, Eurasia Group ◊ Mauro Borges Lemos, President, Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development (ABDI) ◊ John Williamson, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute

INNOVATION, TRADE & BRAZIL IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY A Complex Web of Ties: A Discussion with ANP Business-Government Links Director Allan Barros in Brazil

November 14, 2011 The director of Brazil’s National Cosponsors: Brazil-U.S. Business Council Petroleum Agency discussed the Speakers: implication of the agency’s broad ◊ Sergio G. Lazzarini, Professor of Organization and Strategy, Insper mandate as Brazil works to develop its huge offshore pre-salt oil fields and prepares to benefit from the In another installment of the Brazil emergence of a global biofuels market Forum, Professor Lazzarini discussed in the coming years. the dynamics of the “capitalism of ties” present in Brazil’s economy. This discussion examined how the relationship between the central government and the private sector affects the business and political environment both for American and Brazilian companies.

August 31, 2011 Speakers: ◊ Allan Kardec Duailibi Barros, Director, Agencia Nacional do Petroleo Natural e Biocombustiveis (ANP) Sergio Lazzarini ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute

INNOVATION, TRADE & BRAZIL IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY BRICS: Shaping the New Brazil and Africa: Cooperation Global Architecture for Innovation in Agriculture and What the U.S. Can Do

June 28, 2011 May 16, 2011 Cosponsors: Kennan Institute, Program on Cosponsors: Wilson Center on the Hill, Program American and the Global Economy, Africa on American and the Global Economy Program, Asia Program, Kissinger Institute on Speakers: China and the United States ◊ Erick Fernandes, Advisor, Latin America and Speakers: the Caribbean Region, Agriculture and Rural ◊ Francis A. Kornegay, Public Policy Scholar, Development, World Bank Wilson Center ◊ Ladislau Martin-Neto, President, Lapex- ◊ Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor, Global Affairs, USA, Embrapa Moscow ◊ Marcella Syzmanski, Foreign Affairs Officer, ◊ João Augusto de Castro Neves, Analyst, Agriculture, Biotechnology, and Textile Trade, Eurasia Group U.S. Department of State ◊ Inderjit Singh, Professor of Economics and ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute Stratetigic Studies, National War College ◊ Amy Wilkinson, Public Policy Scholar, Wilson Center Hosting a lunch in the Cannon ◊ Da Wei, Director and Research Professor, China Institute of Contemporary Congressional Office Building, the International Relations Brazil Institute and the Wilson Center on the Hill event focused African Five experts, representing different agriculture and opportunities for emerging powers, discussed the role partnership and development in the of the BRICS in global affairs. A key area. point that emerged from the panel was the issue of whether or not the BRICS represent a cohesive and integrated conglomeration of countries. The panelists concluded that the differences within the group, in terms of values, economic models, political structures and geopolitical interests, far outweigh their commonalities.

INNOVATION, TRADE & BRAZIL IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Managing Our Planet: The State of the Oceans

An international panel of marine the implications of the report and what scientists has recently released the needs to be done in order to address IPSO State of the Ocean Report 2013 the issues on a global scale. and pointed out that the rate and magnitude of impacts on the oceans are faster and larger than previously November 13, 2013 Cosponsors: Environmental Change and thought, and pose more imminent Security Program, George Mason University threats. The oceans have been taking Speakers: up CO2 and heat, helping buffer ◊ Libby Jewett, Director, Ocean Acidification global warming, but at what cost to the Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric functioning of its balances and ocean Administration ecosystems? From ocean acidification ◊ Karen Sack, Senior Director, International Oceans, The Pew Charitable Trusts to shifts in primary productivity, the ◊ Paul Schopf, Professor of Oceanography, concerns for the global oceans are high. Associate Dean for Research and On November 13, a panel discussed Computing, George Mason University

Managing Our Planet: Making the Millennium Development Goals Sustainable

October 16, 2013 With a target date of 2015, the Cosponsors: Environmental Change and Millennium Development Goals Security Program, George Mason University Speakers: (MDGs) are a set of highly ambitious ◊ Melinda Kimble, Senior Vice President for objectives to help eradicate poverty, Programs, UN Foundation reduce environmental degradation, ◊ Thomas Lovejoy, Biodiversity Chair, and improve global health standards H. John Heinz III Center for Science, across the globe. Negotiations are Economics and the Environment already underway for a new set of ◊ Jacob Scherr, Director of Strategy and Advocacy, Natural Resources Defense “Sustainable Development Goals” for Council humanity to attain by 2030. Heads

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Melinda Kimble

of state met in New York to examine or infeasible? On October 16th, a potential SDGs in September 2013. panel discussed the challenges and What was the outcome? What seems potential for formulating a coherent to be in (or out) for the U.N. vision set of new SDGs to guide sustainable of sustainable development over development, improve human security the next generation? Will it be all- and manage our shared planet over the inclusive? Targeted? Affordablenext generation.

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Managing Our Planet: Energy Managing Our Planet: The Looking Forward GEF Looking Forward

September 11, 2013 May 20, 2013 Cosponsors: Environmental Change and Cosponsors: Environmental Change and Security Program, George Mason University Security Program, George Mason University Speakers: Speakers: ◊ Kevin Knobloch, Chief of Staff to Secretary ◊ Naoko Ishii, CEO and Chairperson, Global of Energy Environment Facility ◊ Jennifer Sklarew, Fullbright-Hays Fellow, ◊ Thomas Lovejoy, Biodiversity Chair, George Mason University H. John Heinz III Center for Science, ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute Economics and the Environment ◊ Greory Unruh, Arison Professor of Doing ◊ Blair A. Ruble, Director, Global Sustainability Good Values, George Mason University and Resilience Program; Senior Advisor, Kennan Institute

On September 11th, as part of the As part of the “Managing our Planet” “Managing our Planet” series, a panel seminar series, the Brazil Institute convened to discuss the current state convened a meeting about the Global of the energy infrastructure and what Environmental Facility, the largest steps are being made to reduce carbon funder of biodiversity and climate emissions and promote clean energy. change related projects in the world. Panelists discussed green initiatives Dr. Naoki Ishii shared her thoughts and the direction of energy policy in on where the GEF is headed under her the United States as well as implications leadership. for our global energy infrastructure.

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY The Rainforest Continent Business School

This panel convened environmental professionals to sustainably derive and experts to discuss the creation and increase economic gain from standing establishment of the Rainforest tropical rainforests throughout the Business School. The concept for the world. Participants shared their views school was developed over a series on how to train academics, executives, of meetings at the University of São industries and entrepreneurs on the Paulo, and its objective is to enable matter.

May 15, 2013 Maritta Koch-Weser Cosponsors: Environmental Change and Security Program, Conservation International, University of São Paulo Institute of Advanced Studies Speakers: ◊ Ernesto Fraga Araújo, Minister, Brazilian Embassy ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute ◊ Maritta Koch-Weser, Coordinator, Contemporary Studies of Amazonia, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Sustainability in the Amazon

The Brazil Institute and the group on Amazonia’s transformation Environmental Change and Security at the University of São Paulo, Program at the Wilson Center, in discussed plans for the establishment partnership with Conservation of the Rainforest Continent Business International and the University of São School, following a roundtable of Paulo Institute Of Advanced Studies, experts. Governor Capiberibe offered hosted a seminar on innovative his vision for Amapá’s sustainable initiatives aimed at making the economic development, and the state’s Amazon sustainable. Anthropologist role as a provider and beneficiary of and environmentalist Maritta Koch- environmental services. Weser, a former senior World Bank official who since 2009 leads a study

May 15, 2013 Cosponsors: Environmental Change and Security Program, Conservation International, University of São Paulo Institute of Advanced Studies Speakers: ◊ Camilo Capiberibe, Governor, State of Amapá, Brazil ◊ André Guimarães, Executive Director, Conservation International, Brazil ◊ Maritta Koch-Weser, Coordinator, Contemporary Studies of Amazonia, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo ◊ Thomas Lovejoy, Biodiversity Chair, H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Camilo Capiberibe Economics and the Environment

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Managing Our Planet: Managing Our Planet: The Tom Lovejoy, Suzanne Ehlers, Matthew Climate Change and Extreme World at 7 Billion: Building a Erdman, and Jack Goldstone Weather: Impacts on Public Sustainable Future Health and Agriculture

April 10, 2013 December 5, 2012 Cosponsors: Environmental Change and Cosponsors: Environmental Change and Security Program, George Mason University Security Program, Global Sustainability and Speakers: Resilience Program ◊ William Hohenstein, Director, Climate Speakers: Change Program Office, Office of the Chief ◊ Sandeep Bathala, Senior Program Economist, U.S. Department of Agriculture Associate, Environmental Change and ◊ Tom Karl, Director, National Climatic Data Security Program, Global Health Initiative Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric ◊ Suzanne Ehlers, President and CEO, Administration (NOAA) Population Action International ◊ Paul Schopf, Professor of Oceanography, ◊ Matthew Erdman, Population-Health- Associate Dean for Research and Environment Technical Advisor, USAID Computing, George Mason University ◊ Jack A. Goldstone, Virginia E. and John ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute T. Hazel Jr. Professor, George Mason ◊ Catherine Thomasson, Executive Director, University Physicians for Social Responsibility ◊ Thomas Lovejoy, Biodiversity Chair, H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment On April 10, the “Managing Our Planet” series convened a panel of As the world population surpasses experts to discuss the outlook and seven billion people, governments impact of extreme weather events and societies must help communities scientists see as connected to climate cope with limited natural change. The “Managing our Planet” resources and a rapidly changing seminar series, developed jointly by global climate. A panel discussed George Mason University, the Brazil planetary demographic trends and Institute, and the Environmental their implications for ecological Change and Security Program, aims management at the international and at addressing planetary scale problems global scales. and solutions.

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Managing Our Planet: Managing Our Planet: Managing Mountains for Rio+20: Impacts and Ways Ecological Services and Forward Environmental Security

October 17, 2012 September 12, 2012 Cosponsors: Environmental Change and Cosponsors: Environmental Change and Security Program, Global Sustainability and Security Program, George Mason University Resilience Program, George Mason University Speakers: Speakers: ◊ Fred Boltz, Senior Vice President of Global ◊ Ruth Greenspan Bell, Public Policy Scholar, Strategies, Conservation International Wilson Center ◊ Reid Detchon, Vice President for Energy ◊ Lisa Friedman, Deputy Director, and Climate, United Nations Foundation ClimateWire ◊ Michelle Lapinski, Director of Corporate ◊ John Furlow, Climate Change Specialist, Practices, The Nature Conservancy Impacts and Adaptation, USAID ◊ Jacob Scherr, Director of Strategy and ◊ Paul Schopf, Professor of Oceanography, Advocacy, Natural Resources Defense Associate Dean for Research and Council Computing, George Mason University ◊ Dann Sklarew, Sustainable Fellow, George ◊ Andrew Taber, Executive Director, The Mason University Mountain Institute

Tens of thousands of delegates, High mountain regions face grave journalists, and activists converged in environmental challenges in the face the city of Rio de Janeiro for the June of climate change. A panel including Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable development and conservation Development, yet there was a general practitioners, donors, environmental sense of frustration and angst over media, and policy analysis the final document and lack of representatives provided an overview commitment from leading delegates. of challenges, issues, and solutions for A panel of experts discussed the mitigating and improving damages conference outcomes and the next in mountain regions caused by steps in the global effort for climate environmental degradation. change sustainability.

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY The Road to Rio + 20: Green Jacob Scherr and Inclusive Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean

May 31, 2012 Cosponsors: Environmental Change and Security Program, Latin American Program Speakers: ◊ Cynthia J. Arnson, Director, Latin America Program ◊ Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, Regional Vice President, Conservation International; Minister of Environment, Costa Rica ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute ◊ Ede Ijjasz Vásquez, Director, Sustainable Development, World Bank Latin America and the Caribbean Region April 11, 2012 ◊ Alexander Watson, Managing Director, Hills The Global Environment & Company; former Director, The Nature Facility at 20 Cosponsors: Environmental Change and Conservancy Security Program Speakers: The CEO of GEF, Monique Barbut, ◊ Monique Barbut, CEO According to a report by the World explained how her organization, the and Chairperson, Global Bank, Latin America has served largest funder of global projects, with Environment Facility as the world’s laboratory for green over $60 billion with co-funding ◊ Melinda Kimble, Senior Vice President and inclusive growth ever since allocated to over 2,800 projects to for Programs, UN Foundation ◊ Paul Schopf, Professor of Oceanography, the Rio Conference on Sustainable improve the global environment, Associate Dean for Research and Development that took place twenty will view the upcoming Rio + 20 Computing, George Mason University years ago. Additionally, the region has conference and what roles it will take the lowest carbon energy matrix in the in the future. developing world. A panel of experts discussed how Latin America can combat climate change.

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Managing Our Planet: Rio+20: A New Agenda for A Conversation on Climate Sustainability – or More of the Same? Change with Brazilian Expert Luiz Gylvan Meira Filho

February 22, 2012 The international community made Cosponsors: Environmental Change and Security Program a commitment in Cophenhagen in Speakers: December 2009 to limit climate change ◊ Reid Detchon, Vice President for Energy and Climate, United Nations Foundation to a maximum of two degrees Celsius ◊ Robert Engelman, President, Worldwatch Institute ◊ David Sandalow, Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, Department of Energy by the end of the century, implying limits to global emissions by 2050. At this panel, discussants addressed With the Rio+20 Conference experts discussed the agenda and means to facilitate the necessary on Sustainable Development what outcomes to expect from engagement in the mitigation of approaching, an opportunity to make the conference as well as possible climate change. progress on the global sustainability limitations. agenda was also met. A panel of

Luiz Gylvan Meira Filho

March 28, 2012 Cosponsors: Environmental Change and Security Program Speakers: ◊ Luiz Gylvan Meira Filho, Visiting Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo ◊ Michael McCracken, Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs, Climate Institute ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Shark Loves the Amazon

The daily struggles and hopes of the February 14, 2012 more than twenty million Brazilians Cosponsors: Environmental Change and Security Program who live in the Amazon, mostly in Speakers: cities, are rarely present in analyses ◊ Mark London, Film Producer and images that inform perceptions ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute of the region outside Brazil. Film maker Mark London depicted the hard realities of a region attempting to find the path to a sustainable model of development that promotes economic activity while preserving the Earth’s last great forest and its unparalleled concentration of biodiversity.

Managing Our Planet: January 25, 2012 Cosponsors: Environmental Change Sustainable Solutions for the and Security Program Planet’s Energy Challenge Speakers: ◊ Daniel Kammen, Professor of The environmental challenges of Public Policy, Energy and Resources climate change, energy demands, Group, University of California, Berkeley; Former Chief Technical Specialist, and natural resource loss continue Renewable Energy and Efficiency, The World to mount. The world’s population hit Bank seven billion in November 2011 and is ◊ Greg Kats, President, Capital E; author of projected to grow to ten billion if not “Greening Our Built World” more. The Amazon had the greatest drought in recorded history in 2010. Droughts, floods, wildfires, and intense tropical storms are becoming more frequent. A panel of experts discussed how to mitigate the problems and Mark London presented possible solutions.

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Sustainability for Global May 19, 2011 Biofuels: Tools, Models, Speakers: ◊ Ranyee Chiang, AAAS Science and Policies, and Frameworks Technology Fellow, Biomass Program U.S. Department of Energy Biofuels have been presented as ◊ Christine Dragisic, Director Agriculture everything from a “silver bullet” for Biofuels & Forestry, Conservation climate change to the driving factor International ◊ Alison Goss Eng, Sustainable Biomass behind deforestation and hunger. Can Production, U.S. Department of Energy biofuels be produced in a responsible ◊ Lisa Famolare, Vice President, Guiana manner? And if so, how? A panel Regional Program, Conservation of specialists from the Department International of Energy and Conservation ◊ Manuel Oliva, Director, U.S. Climate Policy, Conservation International International discussed the ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute opportunities and risks associated with biofuel production globally, and the specific means to minimize risks and maximize opportunities associated with biofuel feedstock Luis Alberto production. Figueiredo Machado

Managing Our Planet: The November 16, 2011 Cosponsors: Environmental Change and Road to Rio+20 Security Program, George Mason University Speakers: In the lead up to the UN Conference ◊ Luis Alberto Figueiredo Machado, Under- on Sustainable Development, Rio Secretary for Environment, Energy, Science, +20, Ambassador Luis Alberto and Technology, Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Figueiredo Machado, leader of the Affairs team responsible for planning the ◊ Richenda Van Leeuwen, Senior Director, Energy and Climate, UN Foundation conference, shared the extensive ◊ Thomas Lovejoy, Biodiversity Chair, preparatory work carried out in Brazil, H. John Heinz III Center for Science, and the specific goals, objectives and Economics and the Environment proposals that will be presented at the ◊ Jacob Scherr, Director of Strategy and Advocacy, National Resources Defense conference. Council

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Managing Our Planet: The State of the Oceans

A panel of experts focused on the May 18, 2011 current state of the world’s oceans Cosponsors: Environmental Change and Security Program, George Mason University and looked at ways to mitigate the Speakers: human impact on our planet and ◊ Thomas Lovejoy, Biodiversity Chair, environmental management on a H. John Heinz III Center for Science, global scale. Speakers presented Economics and the Environment commissions that took place in 2003- ◊ Jane Lubchenco, Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere; 4, discussing how the United States Administrator, National Oceanic and is working on methods to protect the Atmosphere Administration oceans on its coastlines. ◊ Enric Sala, Ocean Fellow, National Geographic Society

Enric Sala

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Building a Low Carbon Economy in Brazil: Perspectives on Renewable Energy Public Policies

The panel discussion focused on April 29, 2011 Global Sustainability, Fundacao Getulio Vargas a report by the Getulio Vargas Speakers: ◊ Rosangela Moreira de Araujo, ◊ Eduardo Azevedo Rodrigues, Executive Foundation called “Low Carbon Superintendent of Biofuels and Product Secretary of Energy, Secretariat of Water Economy in Brazil.” Experts concluded Quality, National Agency for Petroleum, and Energy Resources, Pernambuco with a series of proposals for incentives Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) ◊ Luiz Antonio Rossi, Researcher, Solar and in the production and development ◊ Marcelo Cavalcanti Guerra, Wind Renewable Energy, Interdisciplinary Superintendent, Union for the Sugar Center of Energy Planning, University of sectors of renewable energy. and Ethanol Industry of Pernambuco Campinas (SINDACUCAR) ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute, ◊ Barbara da Costa de Oliveira, Supervisor, Wilson Center

Rosangela Moreira de Araujo

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Managing Our Planet: Brazil’s Other Forest: Managing Our Forests: The Fight to Preserve and Carbon, Climate Change, Restore the Mata Atlântica and Fire

April 20, 2011 March 30, 2011 Cosponsors: Environmental Change and Cosponsors: Environmental Change and Security Program, George Mason University Security Program Speakers: Speakers: ◊ Sandra Brown, Director and Chief Scientist, ◊ Ana Cristina Barros, Brazil Country Ecosystem Services Unit, Winrock Representative, The Nature Conservancy International ◊ Miguel Calmon, Coordinator, Instituto ◊ David Cleaves, Climate Change Adviser to BioAtlântica the Chief, USDA Forest Service ◊ Clayton Lino, President, Nation Council ◊ William Sommers, Research Professor, of the Mata Atlântica Biosphere Reserve; Center for Climate and Society, George Coordinator, Brazilian Network of Biosphere Mason University Reserves ◊ Thomas Lovejoy, Biodiversity Chair, Clayton Lino H. John Heinz III Center for Science, This event, which took place during Economics and the Environment the International Year of Forests, ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute brought leading experts together to discuss the impact of climate change, carbon emissions and fire on the world’s forests. Less known than the Amazon, the including subtropical moist Mata Atlântica (Atlantic Forest) forests, savannas, and mangroves. once covered the coast of Brazil Today, the Mata Atlântica is one of the from Rio Grande do Norte to Rio country’s most threatened biomes. Grande do Sul and extended inland Panelists discussed strategies as far as Paraguay and Argentina. to preserve and restore Due to population migration to this the Matla Atlântica. territory, the Mata Atlântica has lost almost 90 percent of its biodiversity,

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Managing Our Planet: Oscar-Nominated Managing Our Planet: What “Lost” Cultures Can Documentary: “Waste Land” Managing the Planet’s Contribute to Management Freshwater of Our Planet

March 23, 2011 March 9, 2011 February 23, 2011 Cosponsors: Environmental Change and Cosponsors: Environmental Change and Security Program, George Mason University The Brazil Institute screened the film Security Program, Latin American Program, Speakers: Waste Land, a 2010 documentary George Mason University Speakers: ◊ Susan Crate, Associate Professor of staring Vik Muniz, Brazilian visual Anthropology, George Mason University ◊ Karin Krchnak, Director, International Water ◊ Wade Davis, Explorer-in-Residence, artist, who worked alongside catadores Policy, The Nature Conservancy National Geographic Society (scavengers of recyclables) at Jardim ◊ Dann Sklarew, Sustainable Fellow, George Gramacho, and his efforts to use art to Mason University This panel, another installment of empower workers in one of the world’s ◊ Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute Managing Our Planet, focused on the largest landfills. effects of climate change on indigenous As part of the Managing Our Planet communities worldwide. Wade Davis series, panelists discussed the and Susan Crate explored the increasing stress placed on freshwater psychological, spiritual, and resources by population growth, cultural aspects of land urbanization, and environmental from the perspective of change, as well as potential solutions Indigenous groups, and how to global water insecurity. climate change alters landscapes and weather patterns that they have adapted to over centuries.

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILWITY Deforestation, Population, Managing Our Planet: A and Development in Dialogue on Managing the a Warming World: A Planet Roundtable on Latin America

February 15, 2011 January 19, 2011 Cosponsors: Environmental Change and Cosponsors: Environmental Change and Security Program, Latin American Program, Security Program, George Mason University Mexico Institute Speakers: Speakers: ◊ Dennis Dimick, Executive Director, National ◊ Jason Bremner, Program Director, Geographic Population Reference Bureau ◊ Juliet Eilperin, Reporter, The Washington ◊ Liza Grandia, Assistant Professor, Clark Post University ◊ Molly Jahn, Professor, University of ◊ David Lopez-Carr, Associate Professor of Wisconsin-Madison Geography, University of California, Santa ◊ Thomas Lovejoy, Biodiversity Chair, Barbara H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment Nearly 80 percent of Latin America’s population lives in urban areas, yet Starting off the ongoing Managing the continent’s rural population has a Our Planet series for 2011, this panel disproportionate effect on its forests. A of experts focused on setting the stage group of experts argued that meeting for the upcoming monthly events and the needs of these communities is key how to use national environmental to conserving Latin America’s forests. management tools on a global scale.

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

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Private Citizen Members Timothy Broas, Partner, Winston & Strawn LLP John T. Casteen, III, President Emeritus, University of Virginia Charles Cobb, Jr., Senior Managing Director and CEO, Cobb Partners Ltd. Thelma Duggin, President, AnBryce Foundation Barry S. Jackson, Managing Director, The Lindsey Group and Strategic Advisor, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck Nathalie Rayes, Executive Director, Fundacion Azteca América Jane Watson Stetson, Chair of the Partners for Community Wellness at Dartmouth- Hitchcock Medical Center

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