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BRAZILIAN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 2020 ANNUAL REPORT THINKING DIALOGUING DISSEMINATING INFLUENCING www.cebri.org Table of Contents 04 PRESENTATION 06 2020 HIGHLIGHTS 11 CEBRI IN NUMBERS 2020 12 PROGRAMS 13 South America 16 Asia 20 United States 23 Europe 25 Multilateralism 29 Agro 32 International Trade 34 Culture and International Relations 37 Energy 40 Infrastructure 42 Environment and Climate Change 46 International Security 49 MEETINGS WITH PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND EXECUTIVES 51 CEBRI ONLINE EVENTS 52 Foreign Policy 54 Economic Policy 55 Brazil 57 COMMUNICATION 58 Social Media 59 Press 61 NETWORKING 62 Stakeholders 64 Members 66 Partnerships 68 INSTITUTIONAL 69 About CEBRI 70 Board of Trustees 72 International Board 73 Senior Fellows 75 Individual Members 76 CEBRI Staff Presentation Getting through 2020, with all its uncertainties, impelled us to reinvent ourselves every day. We reach this moment with satisfaction for seeing CEBRI gain a new dimension, expanding its reach and recognition and further fulfilling its mission as a think tank. We held 135 events with a total audience of 150,000 people. In this document, you will find the links to the recording of all of this year’s events. Among the many themes on our agenda, in 2020 we dedicated special attention to discussing and reflecting upon geopolitics and foreign policy. In addition to the discussion panels, we launched 46 José Pio Borges publications, which are also available in the following pages. Chaiman of the Board of Trustees at CEBRI Throughout the year, we restructured some of our thematic programs, totaling twelve fronts of work. In 2021, we will launch position papers with CEBRI’s recommendations on the respective areas. We would like to thank our team for the unity and strength that were so important this year, and our trustees and fellows for their constant presence and support. We thank our countless Brazilian and international partners, and, finally, we would like to highlight the fundamental support Julia Dias Leite from our members, who continue to be with us, recognizing CEBRI CEO CEBRI’s value for Brazil. 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Multilateralism in focus The reorientation of multilateralism and 150,000 the challenges imposed by the global crisis PEOPLE REACHED were the central themes discussed within the partnership between CEBRI and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) in 2020. The initiative resulted in seven discussion panels and seventeen publications, and connected approximately 7,000 people from thirty countries. 03 Partnership with The Belt and Road Initiative was the focus of a two-day the Council on online workshop held by CEBRI and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in the United States. Experts discussed Foreign Relations topics such as development finance, digital governance, and on strategic issues media and civil society in the context of China-Latin America relations. 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 7 04 05 XVII Forte de Copacabana The Brazil-Argentina Dialogues Conference reaches 45 marked a new phase for CEBRI’s thousand people South America Program The main event on international defense Experts from both countries analyzed the and security in Latin America was held fully Brazil-Argentina relationship from a regional online for the first time. The conference was and global perspective, in five online broadcast in three languages to more than meetings. Among the topics covered were 45 countries. It had 4,000 participants and bilateral political and economic relations; reached 45,000 people via social networks. cooperation in the commercial and nuclear fields; energy and sustainability; and defense and security. 06 The Biden Administration: what changes for Brazil? In this series of online meetings, CEBRI brought together intellectuals, members of the diplomatic corps, and market experts to discuss the prospects for Brazil in the context of the new US administration. The first meeting, with Ambassadors Sergio Amaral and Rubens Ricupero, was one of CEBRI’s most-viewed events of the year. 8 BRAZILIAN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 07 The restructuring of some of CEBRI’s programs marked the 2nd half of the year In 2020, CEBRI’s South America, United States, and Europe Programs gained new leadership and launched new work plans for 2021. These Programs, along with the Asia Program, are part of CEBRI’s regional agenda and are dedicated to a purposeful discussion and analysis regarding Brazil’s relations with its main partners in the world. 08 Wider and stronger network For the second consecutive year, we increased the number of members. Our network has been strengthened and currently comprises 108 members 108 representing diverse segments, including companies, MEMBERS consulates and embassies, as well as individual members. 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 9 09 Diversified content production Considering collections of articles, policy papers, reports, among others, in 2020 CEBRI produced 46 publications about Brazil’s challenges and global trends such as the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic; the future of energy; the economics of innovation and the technological revolution; the crisis of multilateralism; and the reorganization of global geopolitics. 10 Vice President Hamilton Mourão received proposals from CEBRI As part of the series of closed meetings that CEBRI organized, the meeting with the Vice President of Brazil had the participation of some of CEBRI’s trustees and members, and presented proposals for a positive Brazil- China agenda, as well as for the strengthening of the National Council of the Amazon (Conselho Nacional da Amazônia), in view of the country’s environmental, energy and agricultural potential. 10 BRAZILIAN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CEBRI in Numbers 2020 12 135 46 PROGRAMS EVENTS PUBLICATIONS 108 MEMBERS +500 SPEAKERS 150,000 +50,000 AUDIENCE FOLLOWERS ON SOCIAL MEDIA @CEBRIONLINE 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 11 Programs BRAZILIAN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 12 PROGRAMS South America 11 EVENTS +6,000 AUDIENCE The South America Program’s main objective is to offer new perspectives on the continent and the relations between Brazil and its neighbors, promoting a systematic reflection on regional development and its connection with the world. Some of the topics addressed are the region’s insertion in the global production chains, energy matrixes, bioeconomics, security, and the preservation of the Amazon rainforest. TRUSTEE SENIOR FELLOW Celso Lafer Hussein Kalout Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, Political Scientist, Research Scholar at former Minister of Development, Industry Harvard University, and former Special and Trade, Brazil’s former Ambassador to Secretary of Strategic Affairs of Brazil the WTO and the UN, and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters PARTNERS 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 13 PROGRAMS > SOUTH AMERICA EVENTS Roundtable “Perspectives for the Brazil-Argentina relationship: trade, Mercosur and the Agreement with the European Union” With Demétrio Magnoli (CEBRI and GloboNews), Raul Ochoa (CARI), Lúcia Maduro (Firjan), José Siaba Serrate (Universidad del CEMA / Universidad de Buenos Aires), Norberto Pontiroli (CARI), Denise Gregory (CEBRI) and Juan Battaleme (CARI) China and South America: Brazil: back to South America interests, tensions and Hussein Kalout (CEBRI and Harvard), Feliciano Guimarães (USP), Dawisson Belém opportunities Lopes (UFMG), Fernanda Cimini (UFMG), Guilherme Casarões (FGV EAESP), Celso With Luciana Gama Muniz Lafer (CEBRI) and José Pio Borges (CEBRI) (CEBRI), Hussein Kalout (CEBRI Portuguese only and Harvard), Dawisson Belém Lopes (UFMG), Lin Hua (CASS), WATCH Esteban Actis (UNR-Argentina), Ambassador Marcos Caramuru (CEBRI) and Ambassador Diego Guelar (Argentina) Spanish only WATCH BRAZIL-ARGENTINA DIALOGUE Defense and security in South America: a Brazilian and Argentine vision With André