The World’s
Biggest Discussions
from a Brazilian Angle.

Uruguay's Foreign Minister since March 2025, he spent decades leading the Inter Press Service news agency before holding senior roles at the FAO. His career bridges journalism and multilateral diplomacy.

Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale, he is a leading historian of the Cold War and modern Asia. He brings historical depth to today's geopolitical realignments.

President of Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein and a gastrointestinal surgeon by training, he is one of Brazil's most prominent voices on health system management. He addresses the toll of climate change on health.

A career Brazilian diplomat and President of COP30, he has served as ambassador to India and Japan and led Brazil's climate negotiations for years. He discusses the tension between energy demands and climate goals.

DLA Piper partner and Brazilian-American antitrust lawyer based in New York, dual-licensed in both countries. He brings a cross-border legal lens to global governance debates.

Vale's Director of Institutional Relations, a journalist turned executive with decades in Brazilian media. He speaks to critical minerals from inside the mining company at the center of Brazil's new resource geopolitics.

President of ApexBrasil, an economist who rose through the agency's agribusiness division. He positions Brazil's trade agency as key to turning the critical minerals moment into a real economic opportunity.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela, with nearly 30 years in the foreign service across Latin America. He recently helped secure billions in critical minerals investment in Angola, linking the resource debate to broader Western supply-chain strategy.

Executive Director of SAFE's Center for Critical Minerals Strategy in Washington, a frequent witness before the U.S. Congress. She brings the U.S. policy view and on how critical minerals have become a front line of great-power competition.

Brazil's Secretary of Digital Policy, a journalist and researcher who has shaped the country's platform and AI regulation debates. He represents Brazil's own push to regulate AI, central to the panel on tech governance from a Global South perspective.

Co-founder of Equis Research, a leading voice on Latino voter data in the U.S. He connects American electoral shifts to Brazil's own presidential race, both reshaping 2026 politics.

CEO of COP30, she also served as Brazil's National Secretary for Climate Change. She examines how governments and companies are recalibrating the energy transition in the aftermath of the Hormuz Strait crisis.

Columbia University energy economist and former chair of Citgo Petroleum. She grounds the energy panel in hard geopolitical stakes, linking Venezuela's oil crisis to the forces reshaping energy transition.

JOTA's co-founder and co-CEO, a journalist who covered the Judiciary before building JOTA.

Journalist and geopolitical risk analyst. He spent a decade as an international correspondent for O Estado de S. Paulo in New York, then moved to political risk analysis.

JOTA's international analyst, a journalist who spent years as correspondent in Moscow, Brussels, Beijing, and London.