Events
All Content
Valentina Sader is the director for strategy and programs at the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, where she oversees the center’s strategy and geographic portfolios and leads the center’s work on Brazil, US-Brazil relations, and the Southern Cone.
With nearly a decade of experience in international affairs, Sader has led the center’s programming at global convenings such as the UN General Assembly, the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings, Group of Twenty summits, and the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties. During her time at the Atlantic Council, she has also managed the center’s Advisory Council—a group of more than twenty influential former policymakers and business leaders across the Americas—and coordinated its nonresident fellowship program, composed of over twenty high-profile experts from across the region.
A media commentator and published author on Brazil’s domestic and foreign policy and US relations with Brazil, Sader regularly provides analysis in English and Portuguese for major outlets including The New York Times, BBC, CNN Brasil, and Al Jazeera. Her publications span trade, supply chains, and development issues; US-Brazil cooperation on climate and food security; and strategies for deepening bilateral economic ties.
Prior to joining the Atlantic Council, Valentina worked on political risk at Eurasia Group and contributed to trade and investment initiatives at the Embassy of Brazil in Washington, DC.
She holds a BA in international studies from American University, with a focus on political economy and Latin America, and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in policy management from Georgetown University. Originally from Brazil, she is a native Portuguese speaker, fluent in English, and proficient in Spanish.