Lawyer with 25 years of experience in Brazil and internationally. Partner at Chalfin, Goldberg e Vainboim Advogados, where he leads the Compliance and Trade Compliance, ESG and Environmental Law, and Data Privacy and AI practices. He spent 14 years as an executive at Vale, heading the legal, compliance and international relations functions in Brazil, Mozambique and Indonesia, and later served as Director of International Affairs, responsible for international sanctions, export controls and international corporate affairs. A professor of International Sanctions and Brazil Ambassador of the International Sanctions and Export Controls Society (ISECS), he has taken part in forums such as Davos, the Future Investment Initiative (Saudi Arabia) and the CIIE (Shanghai). He holds a law degree and a master's in Environmental Engineering from PUC-Rio, and a specialization in Human Rights from American University Washington College of Law.
Political scientist and professor of International Political Economy at the University of Brasília (UnB) since 1995. In government, he served as Executive Secretary of CAMEX, Brazil's Foreign Trade Chamber under the Ministry of Economy, from 2019 to 2021, and before that, from 2017 to 2018, as Secretary of Strategic Planning at the Office of Strategic Affairs of the Presidency. Abroad, he has been an adjunct professor at IE University (Madrid) and the Australian National University (Canberra), and a research associate at the University of Oxford and the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a PhD in Political Science from IUPERJ (now IESP/UERJ).
Full Professor of International Relations at the University of Brasília (UnB), where he is also Deputy General Coordinator and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Global Studies. His research covers Brazilian foreign policy, global governance, emerging powers and the transformation of the international order. He was Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Visiting Fellow at the U.S. Department of State, and has held visiting teaching and research positions in Brazil, the United States, France, Portugal, Argentina and Uruguay. Editor-in-Chief of the Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (RBPI) from 2004 to 2021. He holds a PhD in History from UnB.
