Rising Brazil

Implications for World Order and International Institutions

A workshop co-sponsored by

The FundaçãoGetulioVargas and the Council on Foreign Relations

FundaçãoGetulioVargas

Rio de Janeiro

December 9-10, 2009

Biographies

Sergio Besserman

Sergio Besserman is senior economist and a professor of Economics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He received theBNDES award for best master dissertation in Economicsand in 1989 joined BNDES’ team of professionals and became Strategic Planning Director. Mr. Besserman worked side by side with many BNDES presidents in the modernizing reform of the State apparatus and in the proposal for industry restructuring, which included cost cutting and management, as well as privatization. He was the first director for BNDES Social Inclusion and Credit Area in 1997. Between 1999 and 2003, Besserman was president of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). He also has a longstanding interest in environmental issues and is a chairman of the national council of WWF-Brasil. He was member of the Brazilian diplomatic mission at the Conference of Parties (COP 4 and 7) of the UN Climate Change Convention and president of Pereira Passos Institute (IPP). Today he presides the Technical Chamber of Sustainable Development and Metropolitan Governance of Rio de Janeiro’s City hall.

Leslie Bethell

Leslie Bethell is Emeritus Professor of Latin American History and Honorary Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Americas. University of London; Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford; Senior Research Associate, Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro; and Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. He is a former Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London (1987-92) and former Director of the Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford (1997-2007). Professor Bethell's research has been principally in the field of nineteenth and twentieth-century Latin American – and especially Brazilian – political, social and cultural history. His publications include The abolition of the Brazilian slave trade (Cambridge, 1970; Port. trans. 1976; 2nd Port. trans., 2002), (editor, with Ian Roxborough) Latin America between the Second World War and the Cold War (Cambridge, 1992; Port. trans. 1996), The Paraguayan War (1864-1870) (London, 1996), (editor) Brasil: fardo do passado, promessa do futuro. Dez ensaios sobre politica e sociedade brasileira (Rio de Janeiro, 2002), Brazil by British and Irish authors (Oxford, 2003), and (editor, with José Murilo de Carvalho) Joaquim Nabuco e os abolicionistas britânicos (Rio de Janeiro, 2008; Eng. trans., 2009). He is Editor of the Cambridge History of Latin America (12 volumes, 1984-2008), in which he is the author or co-author of two chapters on Brazil 1808-50 and four chapters on politics in Brazil 1930-2002. The Cambridge History of Latin America is also being published in Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese.

Marcel Fortuna Biato

Ambassador Marcel Fortuna Biato is Deputy Assistant to thePresident of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Ambassador Biato served as political officer at the London Embassy (1987-90) and the Consulate-General in Berlin (1990-1994). He also served as legal advisor to the country’s Mission to the United Nations (1999-2002). In the Foreign Ministry, he has covered Latin American and military issues, having been advisor to the Brazilian principal during the Peru-Ecuador peace negotiations (1995-1998). He holds a Masters in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics (1989). Ambassador Biato has published articles on Latin American politics, Brazilian foreign policy, global governance, the International Criminal Court and the Law of the Sea.

Rubens Cysne

Rubens Penha Cysne has been a Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Economics of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (EPGE/FGV) since 1985. He holds a PhD in Economics from the EPGE/FGV and a Post-Doc from the University of Chicago, where he has also been as a Visiting Scholar between 1999 and 2004. Professor Rubens Penha Cysne was awarded the Losango Prize for the best Doctoral Dissertation in Economics in 1985 and the Haralambos Simeonidis Prize (with coauthors) for the best article in economics in 1987. He is a former Research Director of the EPGE/FGV, Developer and Director of the Reform-of-State Research Center at the FGV, Developer and Director of the Antitrust Research Center at the FGV and Member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Rio de Janeiro. Since 1995, Professor Cysne is responsible for public consulting projects at FGV in the areas of econometric forecasting, public finance, project evaluation, growth and budgetary process. He has served as consultant to the Central Bank of Brazil, as well as to the Secretary of the Treasury and to the Secretary of Economic Affairs of the Ministry of Finance of Brazil. He has also worked as eventual consultant to international organizations like the World Bank and the CEPAL/ECLAC. His academic publications include, besides several books published in Brazil and abroad, academic peer-reviewed articles in the Review of Economics and Statistics; Journal of Money, Credit and Banking; Journal of Banking and Finance; Journal of Development Economics; International Journal of Finance and Economics, as well as in several other Brazilian and foreign academic journals.

Monica Hirst

Monica Hirst is professor of International Politics at Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Argentina. Her publications include: Argentina - Brasil: el largo camino de la integracion, with Maria da Conceição Tavares (Buenos Aires : Legasa, 1988); Argentina-Brasil: Perspectivas Comparativas Y Ejes De Integracion (1990); The United States And Brazil: a long road of unmet expectation (2004), with Andrew Hurrell (published in Portuguese with the title Brasil e Estados Unidos: desencontros e afinidades by Editora FGV in 2009). She is Editor of the Crisis del Estado e intervención internacional (Edhasa: 2009), in which she is the author of the introduction and one chapter on South-American intervention in Haiti.

Andrew Hurrell

Andrew Hurrell is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at OxfordUniversity and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. His research interests cover theories of international relations, with particular reference to international law and institutions; theories of global and regional governance; and the history of thought on international relations. He also has a longstanding interest in Latin America and in the role of developing countries in international relations. He is currently working on emerging powers and global order, focusing on the policies of Brazil and India towards international institutions including in the areas of international trade, climate change, and nuclear proliferation. Recent publications include: On Global Order: Power, Values and the Constitution of International Society (2007); and ‘Hegemony, Liberalism and Global Order: What Space for Would-be Great Powers?’ International Affairs 82, 1 (January 2006): 1-19. Previous publications include: Inequality, Globalization and World Politics (1999, co-edited with Ngaire Woods); Order and Justice in International Relations (2003, co-edited with Rosemary Foot and John Gaddis); Regionalism in World Politics. Regional Organization and International Order (1995, co-edited with Louise Fawcett).

Charles Kupchan

Charles Kupchan is adjunct senior fellow for Europe studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is also professor of international affairs at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at GeorgetownUniversity. Kupchan was director for European affairs at the National Security Council (NSC) during the first Clinton administration. Before joining the NSC, he worked in the U.S. Department of State on the policy planning staff. Prior to government service, he was an assistant professor of politics at PrincetonUniversity. He is the author of The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century (2002), Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order (2001), Civic Engagement in the Atlantic Community (1999), Atlantic Security: Contending Visions (1998), Nationalism and Nationalities in the New Europe (1995), The Vulnerability of Empire (1994), The Persian Gulf and the West (1987), and numerous articles on international and strategic affairs. Kupchan received a BA from HarvardUniversity and MPhil and DPhil degrees from OxfordUniversity. He has served as a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs, Columbia University’s Institute for War and Peace Studies, the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, the Centre d’Étude et de Recherches Internationales in Paris, and the Institute for International Policy Studies in Tokyo.

Georges D. Landau

Georges D. Landau is a Brazilian lawyer and administrator who has practiced law in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia and been an adviser to several Brazilian Cabinet ministers, including the Minister for External Relations. Mr. Landau spent 27 years as an international civil servant, mostly in Washington, D.C., with the Organization of American States and the Inter-American Development Bank, serving as European representative for the IDB from 1983 through 1989, based in Paris. Subsequently, he was a consultant to the United Nations and the World Bank, with assignments in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He returned to Brazil in 1992 as president of Hill and Knowlton do Brasil, the local subsidiary of an international public affairs firm, and in late 1994 he started his own firm, Prismax Consulting, specializing in government relations for foreign companies operating in Brazil. Mr. Landau taught international economic relations for many years at universities in Brazil, the United States, and Italy, and has contributed articles on law, politics, economics, and foreign affairs to a variety of journals in Latin America, the United States and Europe. He is a board member of the Foundation for Foreign Trade Studies and the U.S.-Brazil Business Council. He also serves as Managing Director of Menas Associates, a British energy consultancy, for Brazil and the Mercosul countries and is the editor of their monthly newsletters Brazil Focus and Bolivia Politics & Security. He is also a Senior Counsellor to CEBRI, the BrazilianCenter on International Relations, with HQ in Rio de Janeiro, and a Senior Associate of the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC . He holds both an M.P.A, and an LL.M. from HarvardUniversity.

Maria Regina Soares de Lima

Maria Regina Soares de Lima is a professor at the Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ). She holds a PhD in Political Science from VanderbiltUniversity (1986).Her research interests cover Brazilian Foreign Policy and foreign trade.She is author ofA Agenda Sul- Americana: Mudanças e Desafios no Início do Século XXI with Marcelo Vasconcelos Coutinho (Brasilia: Fundação Alexandre Gusmão, 2007); Brasil, Índia e África do Sul: Desafios e Oportunidades para Novas Parcerias with Mônica Hirst (Paz e Terra, 2009); Os BRICs e a Ordem Global with Andrew Hurrel, Monica Hirst, Neil MacFarlene, Amrita Narlikar and Rosemary Foot. In 2002, she was the coordinator of the Human Sciences area of the Support Fund for Researches from Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) and a member of the editorial board of the Foreign Affairs en Español.

James M. Lindsay

James M. Lindsay is senior vice president, director of studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg chair at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).Dr. Lindsay holds an AB in economics and political science (highest distinction, highest honors) from the University of Michigan and an MA, MPhil, and PhD from YaleUniversity. He has been a fellow at the Center for International Affairs and the Center for Science and International Affairs, both at HarvardUniversity. Before returning to CFR in 2009, Dr. Lindsay was the inaugural director of the RobertS.StraussCenter for International Security and Law at The University of Texas at Austin, where he held the Tom Slick chair for international affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. From 2003-2006, he was vice president, director of studies and Maurice R. Greenberg chair at CFR. He previously served as deputy director and senior fellow in the foreign policy studies program at the Brookings Institution and has taught at the University of Iowa. Dr. Lindsay has authored, coauthored, or edited many publications His book with Ivo H. Daalder, America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy (Brookings Institution Press, 2003), was awarded the 2003 Lionel Gelber Award, named a finalist for the Arthur S. Ross Book Award, and selected as a top book of 2003 by The Economist. His other books include Agenda for the Nation (with Henry J. Aaron and Pietro S. Nivola, Brookings Institution Press, 2003), which was named an “Outstanding Academic Book of 2004” by Choice Magazine. He has also contributed articles to the op-ed pages of many major newspapers, including the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times.

Sebastian Mallaby

Sebastian Mallaby is director of the MauriceR.GreenbergCenter for Geoeconomic Studies (CGS), deputy director of the David Rockefeller Studies Program, and Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He served in the Washington Post as a columnist and editorial board member. At CFR Mallaby is examining how the interplay of economics and politics is shaping international relations, and is currently working on a book on hedge funds. He wrote a book on the history of the World Bank under James Wolfensohn, entitled The World’s Banker (2004). It was named as an “Editor’s Choice” by the New York Times and became a Washington Post bestseller. Mallaby spent thirteen years with The Economist. While at The Economist, he worked in London, where he wrote about international finance; in Africa, where he covered Nelson Mandela’s release and the collapse of apartheid; and in Japan, where he covered the breakdown of the country’s political and economic consensus. Between 1997 and 1999, Mr. Mallaby was The Economist’s Washington bureau chief and wrote the magazine’s weekly Lexington column on American politics and foreign policy. Mr. Mallaby has also contributed to numerous other publications, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Prospect (UK), New York Times, The New Republic, Slate, Policy Review, and National Interest. He is the author of After Apartheid: The Future of South Africa, which was listed by the New York Times as one of the notable books of 1992.

Marcelo Medeiros

Dr. Marcelo Medeiros is professor at the Department of Sociology at University of Brasilia (UnB) and a member of the Board of Advisors at the Social Research Centre from AmericanUniversity in Cairo. He is Visiting Professor at Universidad Nacional San Martín, in Buenos Aires. He is also a former visiting researcher at the Institute for Human Development from Indira Gandhi Institute and Institute for Human Development, both in India; former associate member at Von Hügel Institute at Cambridge University. Dr. Medeiros also coordinated the InternationalPovertyCenterat the Institute of Research on Applied Economics (IPEA). In 2008, he worked as expert on policies evaluation at Tribunal de Contas da União. His main area of research and studies is social inequality and for them has received awards from ANPOCS, Brazilian Senate and Corecon-DF. Marcelo Medeiros publications are about poverty, inequality and social mobility, education, development theories, gender, health, use of time, demography, deficiency and social protection. He is a member of the International Sociological Association, the Indian Society for Labor Economics and the Brazilian Sociology Society (SBS) and the Brazilian Society for Scientific Progress.

Marcelo Neri

Marcelo Neri is a brazilian economist, head of the Center of Social Policies (CPS) at the Brazilian Institute of Economics (IBRE) and professor at Graduate School of Economics at Fundação Getulio Vargas. He holds a PhD from PrincetonUniversity (1996) and a Master Degree on economics from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (1989). Until 1999, he was a fellow at the Institute of Research on Applied Economics (IPEA) at the Secretaria de Assuntos Estratégicos da Presidência. Mr. Neri acts actively in the proposition, evaluation and discussion of public policies, having participated on the creation of the state’s system of salary levels and designed a system of social goals applied to some federal unities. In 2005, he earned the Medal Competition for Outstanding Research on Development, on the 6th Annual Global Development Conference, at Dakar from his proposal of social credit based on Millennium Development Goals. His mains areas of expertise are education, society’s economy, poverty and inequality, social well-fare, social policies and job market. Marcelo Neri has published and organized numerous publications and he writes regularly on the Valor Economico Journal and Conjuntura Economica Magazine. He is also a fellow of the Education Partner Council at the Educational Secretariat of Rio de Janeiro’s City Hall; of the Technical Council “All for education compromise”; Presidency’s Council on Economic and Social Development (CDES); Council on Citizenship Action against Hunger and for Citizenship.

Octavio Amorim Neto

Octavio Amorim Neto is a professor at the Graduate School of Economics at Fundacao Getulio Vargas - Rio de Janeiro. He holds a MA in Political Science from IUPERJ and a PhD in Political Science from University of California - San Diego. His research interests include Brazilian Politics, Compared Politics and Political Economy. He is co-author and co-editor ofO Semipresidencialismo nos Países de Língua Portuguesa (2009) andBrasil y México: Encuentros y Desencuentros (2005) and the author of Presidencialismo e Governabilidade nas Américas (2006). He has published numerous articles in scientific journals such as Dados (Brasil), American Journal of Political Science (EUA), British Journal of Political Science (Inglaterra), Comparative Political Studies (EUA), World Politics (EUA), Legislative Studies Quarterly (EUA), Latin American Politics and Society (EUA), Party Politics (Inglaterra) e Revista de Ciência Política (Chile).

Shannon O’Neil

Shannon O’Neil is the Douglas Dillon fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Her expertise includes political and economic reform in Latin America, U.S.-Latin American relations, and Latin American immigration to the United States. She recently directed CFR’s Independent Task Force on U.S.-Latin America Relations: A New Direction for a New Reality. She is currently working on a book on Mexico, analyzing the political, economic, and social transformations Mexico has undergone over the last two decades, and the significance of these changes for U.S.- Mexico relations. In addition to her work at CFR, Shannon has taught in the political science department at Columbia University, and she publishes LatIntelligence— blog analyzing Latin American politics, economics, and public policies. She is a frequent commentator on major television and radio programs. Prior to joining CFR, she was a justice, welfare, and economics fellow and an executive committee member and graduate associate at the WeatherheadCenter for International Affairs at HarvardUniversity. She was also a Fulbright Scholar in Mexico and Argentina. Prior to her academic work, O’Neil worked in the private sector as an equity analyst at Indosuez Capital Latin America and Credit Lyonnais Securities. She holds a PhD in Government from HarvardUniversity, an MA in International Relations from YaleUniversity, and a BA from YaleUniversity.