The Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at theDavid Rockefeller
Center for Latin American Studies presents:
Lula's Presidency & Post-Election Analysis
A
Conversa with
Richard Lapper (Latin American
editor, Financial Times)
&
Paulo Sotero (Director of the Brazil Institute, Woodrow
Wilson
International Center for Scholars).
Moderated by Kenneth Maxwell (Harvard University).
Thursday, November 30, 12-2 PM - CGIS S-050
1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138
For more information, please visit our website:
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/brazil
This event is made possible by the generous support of the Jorge Paulo
Lemann fund.
Richard
Lapper is
Latin America Editor at the FT. He edits - and often writes - Latin
America
Agenda, a weekly analytical column on political, economic and business
issues
in the region. Richard leads the FT’s reporting team in Latin America, writes leaders and is a regular
contributor to the
analysis and comment pages of the FT newspaper. He also broadcasts and
speaks
about events in the region for a wide range of media and institutions.
He has
been in his current post since May 1998. He was previously financial
news
editor (1997-98), capital markets editor (1994-97) and insurance
correspondent
(1990-94). He was previously an editor
at Financial Times Business Information and the Economist Intelligence
Unit. He
began journalism in 1980 as a correspondent in Central
America for Latin America Newsletters. He was born in
Sheffield, England
and lives in Sao Paulo,
Brazil.
Paulo
Sotero Marques is Director of
the Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars. Sotero
was the Washington
correspondent for Estado de S. Paulo,
a leading Brazilian daily newspaper, for the last
seventeen years. He has been also a regular commentator and analyst for
the BBC
radio's Portuguese language service, Radio France Internationale, and
the Brazilian Rádio Eldorado. Since 2003 he has been an adjunct
lecturer at Georgetown University. Sotero has a
BA in history from the Catholic University of Pernambuco, Brazil, and
an MA in Journalism and Public Affairs from The American University in Washington, D.C. In 1987, he received the
prestigious Maria Moors Cabot Award Special Citation from the Graduate
School of Journalism, Columbia
University. He is
also the recipient of
the 1993 Distinguished Visiting Lecturer award from the Foreign Service
Institute of the U.S.
Department of State.