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Latin American Crossroads: Brazil – Modern, Mature, Misunderstood
Brazil’s muddy economic outlook in the wake of a far-reaching corruption scandal has created some challenges to its global reputation, but it hasn’t completely lost its luster as a market for Georgia companies. From Novelis and NCR to Coca-Cola and Delta, many regard the nation of 200 million as key pillar in their global strategies. Though the raw number dropped by 25 percent, Brazil remained an almost-billion-dollar export market for Georgia. And the state has been a magnet innovative Brazilian companies in technology, agriculture and manufacturing.
Join Global Atlanta for the fourth event in the Latin American Crossroads series to hear stories of the companies and individuals helping Atlanta position itself for further interactions with the South American powerhouse.
Confirmed speakers include:
Opening remarks: Egbert Ferreira, Deputy Consul and head of the Trade and Investment Bureau, Consulate of Brazil in Atlanta
- Kirk Bowman, Jon R. Wilcox Term Professor in Soccer and Global Politics at Georgia Tech and founder of Rise Up & Care, which screened the “Reimagine Rio” film festival in favelas all over the city
- Aniela Chertavian, MJV Innovation, a Brazil-based design-thinking consultancy
- Maureen Halstead, vice president, KaMin LLC, a Georgia-based kaolin clay manufacturer that owns a mining operation in northeast Brazil
- Bob Crain, senior vice president and general manager, Americas, AGCO Corp., a Fortune 500 agricultural products company based in Duluth.
The event is sponsored by Emory Executive Education at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School and supported by the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce Southeast.
