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January 17, 2012
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
DEUTZ Conference Room
Institute of the Americas (on the UC San Diego campus)

Journalist and analyst Paulo Sotero talks about how President Dilma Rousseff is Building on Recent Successes and Managing Newfound Wealth

President Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's first female chief executive, has inherited a tough job from her predecessors. She must consolidate Brazil's economic growth by developing a sustainable path to prosperity for millions of Brazilians while building on the country's global influence and its position as the sixth largest economy in the world.

Sotero is a member of the Institute of the Americas board of directors and the director of the Brazil Institute in the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

A native of the state of São Paulo, Sotero started his career in journalism at Veja weekly magazine in 1968 and held positions in Recife, Paris and Lisbon as well as being assigned to cover the Palácio do Planalto, the Brazilian President's office, in Brasília. Sotero was the Washington correspondent for leading Brazilian daily newspaper Estado de S. Paulo for 17 years and correspondent for Istoé weekly magazine as well as Gazeta Mercantil.

Sotero is a regular commentator on radio and television programs as well as adjunct lecturer at Georgetown University.