The New International Scenario and Brazil’s Foreign Policy
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Policy Center for the New South and its Brazilian partner CINDES will host a joint seminar in Rio de Janeiro, titled “The New International Scenario and Brazil’s Foreign Policy”, on Wednesday October 30th, 2019, at 14:00.
This seminar will be composed of two panels:
The first one will highlight the new international scenario and its implications for Brazil and other developing countries, by addressing the economic dimension of the foreign policy (trade and investments), trying to identify the likely implications of the presidential elections for Brazil’s trade and investment policies in general and with different regions and countries.
The second panel will be addressing the new Brazilian foreign policy by tackling the main features of Brazil’s new economic foreign policy, the new foreign policy in political and climate-related fields as well as the implications of the new policy for South American countries and other developing regions.
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AGENDA |
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14:00 – 14:15 |
Opening remarks Eduardo Amaral Haddad, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South |
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14:15 – 16:00 |
The new international scenario and its implications for Brazil and other developing countries This session will discuss the implications for Brazil and other developing countries of the changing international scenario in the areas of trade and investment, climate change and energy.Speakers: Eduardo Amaral Haddad, Policy Center for the New South, (Download Presentation) Q&A session |
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16:00 – 16:15 |
Coffee break |
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16:15 – 18:00 |
The new Brazilian foreign policy This session will highlight the recent evolution of Brazilian foreign policy in its different dimensions, including the economic one. It will also discuss its implications for Brazil's relations with South American countries, especially Argentina.Speakers: Ricardo Markwald, Foundation for Foreign Trade Studies Center (FUNCEX) Q&A session |
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18:00 – 18:15 |
Concluding remarks Eduardo Amaral Haddad, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South |
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Eduardo Amaral Haddad, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South
Eduardo A. Haddad is Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, previously known as OCP Policy Center, who focuses on Regional Economics and Development Economics and Full Professor and Chairman of the Department of Economics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he also directs the Regional and Urban Economics Lab (NEREUS). He also holds a position as Affiliate Research Professor at the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory – REAL – at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Professor Haddad received his B.A. in Economics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 1993 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign in 1997. In 1998 he held a post-doctoral position at the University of Oxford. He has served as the president of the Brazilian Regional Science Association (2008-2010), and as the first president of the Regional Science Association of the Americas (2008-2010). He was the Director of Research of the Institute of Economic Research Foundation – FIPE – from 2005 to 2013. He has spent the period January 2014 to June 2015 on sabbatical as a visitor at the Department of Economics (International Economics Section) at Princeton University, and at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Public Policy and Planning at Rutgers University.
Professor Haddad has published widely in professional journals on regional and interregional input-output analysis, computable general equilibrium modeling, and various aspects of regional economic development in developing countries; he has also contributed with chapters in international books in the fields of regional science and economic development. His research focuses on large-scale modeling of multi-regional economic systems, with special interest in modeling integration applied to transportation, climate change and spatial interaction.
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Pedro da Motta Veiga, President, CINDES
Pedro da Motta Veiga is the President of CINDES – Centro for Studies on Integration and Development – an independent think tank based in Rio de Janeiro and working on trade, investment and global issues. He is also Senior Fellow at CEBRI – the Brazilian Center for International Relations, a non-resident fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy – Latin America Initiative, and a partner at Ecostrat, a consulting firm.