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Addressing Brazil’s Economic Challenges: The Difficult Road Ahead
December 14 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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The Brazil Brown Bag Seminar Series invites you to its discussion titled, “Addressing Brazil’s Economic Challenges: The Difficult Road Ahead” with Alessandro Teixeira, Professional Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University.
Alessandro Golombiewski Teixeira holds a PhD in Technological and Industrial Competitiveness from the University of Sussex (England), a master’s degree in Latin American Economics from the University of São Paulo (Brazil) and an undergraduate degree in Economics from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil).
Mr. Teixeira was the president of the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development – ABDI from January 2015 to March 2016 and was part of its founding. Later, from 2003 to 2007, he also presided over the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development – ABDI. Teixeira is the Executive Secretary of the Brazilian Council for Industrial Development – CNDI, which gathers senior Brazilian Ministers and civil society representatives – CEOS and labor leaders.
Mr. Teixeira took office in 2011 as Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, in Brazil. He was also Counselor of the Brazilian Bank for Economic and Social Development – BNDES, Counselor of the Brazilian Service of Support for Micro and Small Enterprises – SEBRAE, and Chairman of several Brazilian institutions, such as Apex-Brasil and Suframa (Superintendency of Manaus Free Trade Zone).
From 2007 to 2010, Mr. Teixeira was the President of the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency – Apex-Brasil. From 2008 to 2012, he also held the presidency of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies – WAIPA –, an association of investment that holds promotion agencies of over 160 countries. And from 2009 to 2011, he was the President of the Iberian-American Network of Commercial Promotion Organizations – REDIBERO –, an association of commercial promotion agencies of Latin American and Caribbean countries (affiliated to the Inter-American Development Bank). Teixeira was also Executive Secretary of the U.S.-Brazil CEO Forum, the UK-Brazil Forum, the India-Brazil Forum and the Joint Economic and Trade Committee (JETCO Brazil-UK), as well as a member of the World Economic Forum.
In April 2007, he was granted with Comenda da Ordem do Rio Branco, an award that the Brazilian government gives to those who made relevant contributions to the country. In 2008, he was nominated for “Personality of the Year 2008 – Latin America” by the prestigious British newspaper The Financial Times.