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Thoughts on Brazil's Present and Future

Friday, February 13, 2015
5:00 AM
Weill Hall, 4th Floor Faculty Lounge - Ford School of Public Policy 735 South State Street

Sponsors: Ford School of Public Policy International Economic Development Program, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Brazil Initiative

Paulo Sotero is the director of the Brazil Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. An award winning journalist, from 1989 to 2006 he was the Washington correspondent for Estado de S.Paulo, a leading Brazilian daily newspaper. Sotero began his career at Veja in the late 1960s and worked for the magazine in São Paulo, Recife, Brasília, and Paris, until he was named its correspondent in Portugal after the democratic revolution of April 25, 1974. Sotero has been in Washington, D.C., since 1980, where he has been a correspondent for Istoé weekly magazine and the financial newspaper Gazeta Mecantil. He is a frequent guest commentator for the BBC, CNN, AlJazeera, Voice of America, National Public Radio, Globo News Television and the Brazilian Radio Network - CBN. He also contributes regularly to Brazilian and international newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals. A native of the state of São Paulo, Sotero holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from the Catholic University of Pernambuco, and a Master’s in Journalism and Public Affairs from the American University, in Washington, D.C. He has been an adjunct lecturer at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, and is currently on the adjunct faculty of the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.

Education
M.A., Journalism and Public Affairs, American University, Washington, D.C.

Subjects
Brazil,Latin America,Media,U.S.-Brazil Relations

Experience
Washington correspondent for O Estado de S. Paulo; commentator and analyst for national and international news outlets; adjunct lecturer of Brazilian politics and the media at Georgetown University; writer and lecturer on Brazilian and Latin American affairs and Brazil-U.S. relations

Expertise
Latin America, with particular emphasis on Brazil, contemporary politics, and the media

Sponsors: Ford School of Public Policy International Economic Development Program, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Brazil Initiative

Speaker:
Paulo Sotero, Director of the Wilson Center's Brazil Institute