Elizabeth Carvalho is Interviewer and Executive Editor of Milenio, a program dedicated to discussion of important ideas of the 21st century, and broadcast by Globonews, the Brazilian national 24-hour cable television of TV Globo, the largest network in Brazil. . Carvalho has interviewed more than a hundred leading thinkers from many backgrounds, as well as the new leaderships who came to power in Latin America in recent times - Presidents Evo Morales of Bolivia, Michelle Bachelet of Chile, Nestor Kirschner of Argentina, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil. In the last months, she had covered as special reporter the main events in Latin America. The media behavior in the continent is also one of her main issues of research, and she has been invited to expose her ideas in conferences at the University of Toronto, at the Associação Brasileira de Imprensa in São Paulo and at the Federação das Industrias de Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

As a print journalist, Carvalho has written for Correio da Manhã, Jornal do Brasil, Veja, Revista Afinal, O Globo e O Estado de São Paulo. She was a correspondent for Veja Magazine and Jornal do Brasil in Paris during 1970-71. Her prizes include VII Prêmio Abril de Jornalismo and VII Prêmio Vladimir Herzog for Amnisty and Human Rights. Carvalho co-authored the series Os Anos 70 writing about Journalism on TV along this decade, and translated from Spanish to Portuguese the novel El Vuelo del Gato, by Cuban writer Abel Prieto. She is concluding the researches for a new project - Lessons from a Plural Movement - a book about the results, the new tendencies and new proposals that arose on the last 5 years of struggle against the neo-liberal globalization gathered in the first and largest assembly of a global left , the World Social Forum. She also writes regularly to the French newspaper Le Monde Diplomatique, as well as articles on the web to Diplo Brasil, Mercado Ético and Caja de Herramientas, from Viva la Ciudadania, one of the most known NGOs in Colombia.

Carvalho's past television experience includes research at the Centre de Documentation de la Radio Telévision Algerienne, in Algiers. She also worked as Editor of the evening news at TV Globo Network, Executive Editor of Journalism at TV-Bandeirantes Network and documentarist for different Brazilian channels. She wrote several scripts for a series broadcast by the public education network of Brazil .

Carvalho has studied Journalism at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and Mass Communication with Edgard Morin at École Pratique d´Hautes Études, Paris.