The 'New' Brazil in an Uncertain World - 3:45 PM

When
February 07, 2011
3:45 PM - 4:44 PM
Location
NCWA
Spaces left
6

Registration

Attendee – $15.00
Regular Associate member attendee for lecture
Door Greeter

Kellie Meiman, Managing Director for the International Practice of McLarty Associates, Washington, DC, will address the Naples Council on World Affairs on Monday, February 7th, at St. John the Evangelist’s Kiney Hall, 625 111th Avenue, at 3:45 and 7:30 pm.

For the past ten years her responsibilities have focused on Brazil and adjacent South American countries. She served as a Foreign Service Officer with the Department of State and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations task force on Latin America. Ms. Meiman previously worked at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) as Director for Brazil and the Southern Cone. An Economic Officer in the Foreign Service, Ms. Meiman served in Porto Alegre, São Paulo and Recife, Brazil, and in Bogotá, Colombia.

Brazil faces the changes that come with a new leader, who despite being chosen by former President “Lula”, has been recently challenged by natural disasters that underscore the deep rift between rich and poor. Recent efforts by Brazil to become mediators in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have led to pleas by Lebanon to ask that Brazil, in partnership with Venezuela, accept as many as 200,000 Palestinian refugees. Will Brazil’s new President, Dilma Rousseff, pursue this mediation? And what of trade relations with the United States?

Kellie Meiman has lived and studied in Japan and Central America and speaks Spanish and Portuguese. She is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

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