Agriculture and Sustainability seminars: Dec. 4 & 5, 2008

The Brazil Institute invites you to two high-level seminars on

Agribusiness and Sustainability in Brazil –Farming in Mato Grosso, the Border of the Amazon

Thursday, December 4, 2008
8:45 AM – 1:00 PM
6th Floor Flom Auditorium
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

&

Prospects for Brazil-US Relations in the New American Administration

Friday, December 5, 2008
8:45 AM – 6:00 PM
6th Floor Flom Auditorium
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
(www.wilsoncenter.org/directions)
RSVP to Alan.Wright@Wilsoncenter.org


Agribusiness and Sustainability in Brazil –
Farming in Mato Grosso, the Border of the Amazon
Thursday, December 4, 2008
8:45 AM – 1:00 PM


8:45 AM - Opening Session

Welcome Remarks: Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center
Speaker: Blairo Maggi, Governor, State of Mato Grosso

9:30 AM - Farmers from Brazil’s Agriculture Frontier: Addressing the Challenges of Economic Development and Sustainability

Speakers: Ricardo Arioli, President, Mato Grosso Association of Soybean Producers (Aprosoja); Rui Prado, President, Mato Grosso Farm Bureau (FAMATO); John Carter, Director, Aliança da Terra; Annie Petsonk, International Counsel, Environment Defense Fund’s Climate & Air Program

11:00 AM - Break

11:15 AM - Debate

Discussants: Thomas Lovejoy, Biodiversity Chair, Heinz Center; Mark London, Lawyer at London & Mead and author of The Last Forest, joined by Governor Maggi and the first panel
Moderator: Geoffrey Dabelko, Director, Environmental Change and Security Program, Woodrow Wilson Center

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Prospects for Brazil-US Relations in the New American Administration
Friday, December 5, 2008
8:45 AM – 6:00 PM


8:45 AM - Opening Session

Welcome Remarks: Lee H. Hamilton, President and Director, Woodrow Wilson Center

Speakers: Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Brazil’s Ambassador to the US and
Clifford Sobel, US Ambassador to Brazil

9:30 AM - Is There Room for a Strategic Relationship Between Brazil and the US? Part I

Speakers: Nelson Jobim, Brazil’s Minister of Defense; Thomas Pickering, Vice Chairman, Hills & Company – Chair: Kellie Meiman, Managing Director, McLarty Associates

11:00 AM - Break

11:15 AM - Is There Room for a Strategic Relationship Between Brazil and the US? Part II

Speakers: Blairo Maggi, Governor, State of Mato Grosso; Donna Hrinak, Senior Director for Latin America Government Affairs, Pepsico (invited); Rubens Barbosa, President, Superior Council of Foreign Trade, FIESP; Anthony Harrington, President and CEO, Stonebridge International – Chair: Jon Huenemann, Principal for the International Department, Miller & Chevalier

12:45 PM - Lunch Keynote Speaker: Charles Hagel, US Senator, Nebraska (invited)

Chair: Anthony Harrington, President and CEO, Stonebridge International

2:30 PM - Can Brazil and the US Become Partners in the Field of Energy?

Speakers: Eliot L. Engel, U.S. Representative for New York and Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere (invited); Marcio Zimmermann, Brazil’s Deputy Minister of Mines and Energy; Antonio Barros de Castro, Counselor to the President, National Bank of Economic and Social Development – Chair: Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center

4:00 PM - Break

4:15 PM - Challenges to Brazil and US Regional Leadership

Speakers: Thomas A. Shannon, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere; Marcel Biato, Deputy International Affairs Adviser to President Lula; Riordan Roett, Fulbright Scholar, Director of Western Hemisphere Studies, SAIS at John Hopkins University; Matias Spektor, Professor of International Relations, Fundação Getúlio Vargas (invited); Carlos Pio, Fulbright Scholar, Professor of Political Economy, University of Brasilia – Chair: Leslie Bethell, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center

6:00 PM - Reception – Art Opening of “Visual Impressions” in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Fulbright Commission in Brazil