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The Atlantic Council is pleased to announce Ricardo Sennes, one of the world’s leading experts on Brazil, as a new nonresident senior Brazil fellow at the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center. Sennes offers comprehensive analysis on the new Brazil, as well as the country’s strategic position within global affairs, and its key relationships with the United States and Europe.
He will author three publications this year and add to the Arsht Center’s expertise on Brazil as the country prepares to host the World Cup and vote in presidential elections in October. The first policy brief will launch the first week of June 2014 and answers the question, “Will Brazil Get What it Expects from the World Cup?”
“Ricardo offers unique insights into the future of Brazil and delivers an evaluation of how domestic developments continue to shape the country’s global agenda. We, as a center, strive to contextualize changes in Brazil and add a more nuanced understanding to the policy discussion on how and why Brazil makes its political and socioeconomic decisions. Ricardo gives us a valuable perspective on all of these issues,” said Peter Schechter, director of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center.
The Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center will release Sennes’s first report to the public on June 6, 2014. Sennes is also preparing a second report on Brazil’s upcoming presidential elections for the fall of 2014.
“I have worked extensively with Ricardo and his ability to translate Brazil’s day to day development into tangible and meaningful context is unmatched,” says Jason Marczak, deputy director of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center. “We are fortunate to benefit from Ricardo’s expertise at a time when everyone is looking at Brazil as host of the World Cup. Ricardo’s knowledge of the nation and her people, as well as the role Brazil plays in the region is granular and multifaceted,” says Marczak.
In addition to serving as the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center’s nonresident fellow, Ricardo Sennes is a Partner Director of Prospectiva, a consulting firm of Public Policies and International Business and the general coordinator of the Group of International Analysis (GACINT) at University of São Paulo. He has conducted research for the International Relations Center at the University of São Paulo, the Woodrow Wilson Institute in Washington DC, and for the Iberian and Latin American Studies Center at the University of California-San Diego.
The Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center is dedicated to broadening awareness of the transformational political economic and social changes throughout Latin America. Follow the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center on Twitter @ACLatAm.