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.