FRIDAY APRIL 15
| "We are committed to exploring partnerships with Brazil to foster advances in Energy, Environment, Entrepreneurship, Global Business and Policy Innovation, which are crucial in shaping sustainable solutions to global challenges.” - L. Rafael Reif, MIT Provost
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| 7:30 AM | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 AM | Welcome Richard Locke, Class of 1922 Professor of Political Science and Management; Head, Political Science Department; Co-Director, MIT-Brazil Program |
| 8:35 AM | Policy Innovation Chair: Ben Ross Schneider, Ford International Professor of Political Science; Co-Director, MIT-Brazil Program Panelists: Rachel Glennerster, Executive Director, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, MIT Rigorous testing of policy innovation: Lessons for Brazil Marcelo Neri, Chief Economist, Center for Social Policies, Fundação Getúlio Vargas The new Brazilian social policies Sergio Rezende, former Minister of Science and Technology, Brazil; Professor of Physics, Federal University of Pernambuco Science in Brazil: Never too late |
| 10:00 AM | Climate Variability and Change Chair: Dara Entekhabi, Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Director, Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory for Environmental Science and Engineering; Director, Earth System Initiative, MIT Panelists: Antonio Moura, Director, National Meteorology Institute, Brazil Rainfall monitoring in the Amazon region: A challenge for climate and climate change research and a need for adaptation strategies policy-making Earle Williams, Principal Research Engineer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT Historical climate variability in the Amazon and South America regions Ronald Prinn, TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science; Director, Center for Global Change Science; Co-Director, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT Climate forcing and climate projections for the Amazon region and the globe |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch and Keynote Address Progress in education policy in the 2000s Fernando Haddad, Minister of Education, Brazil Introduced by Ben Ross Schneider, Ford International Professor of Political Science; Co-Director, MIT-Brazil Program |
| 1:30 PM | Amazon Ecosystem and Environmental Response Chair: Dara Entekhabi, Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Director, Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory for Environmental Science and Engineering; Director, Earth System Initiative, MIT Introduction Panelists: Gilberto Câmara, General Director, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil Are we ready for REDD? Multidimensional policies for reducing Amazon deforestation: 2001-2010 Elfatih Eltahir, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT Role of vegetation in shaping regional climate over the Amazon basin Paulo Artaxo, Professor, Environmental Physics, University of São Paulo, Brazil The changing Amazon: Recent results from the LBA experiment Paul Moorcroft, Professor, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Predicting the fate Amazonian ecosystems over the coming century |
| 3:00 PM | Going Global: What MNCs from Brazil and the U.S. Can Teach Each Other Chairs: Lawrence K. Fish, member, MIT Corporation; former Chairman and CEO, Citizens Financial Group Suzanne Berger, Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science; Director, MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives Panelists: Edvaldo Morata, Chief of Staff and Head of Corporate Banking, Sovereign Bank Santander Group: A global model for a dual world Mauro Kern Junior, Executive Vice President, New Programs, Airline Market, Embraer Embraer going global Eduardo W. Wanick, President and CEO, DuPont Latin America Driving science-based innovation in Latin America Luciano Siani, Director of Strategy and Human Resources, Vale It's a diverse world out there...but being yourself pays off Ricardo Marino, VP Latin American Operations, Itaú Unibanco Itaú Unibanco: The path to become a global player |
| 4:40 PM | Closing Remarks Richard Locke, Class of 1922 Professor of Political Science and Management; Head, Political Science Department; Co-Director, MIT-Brazil Program |
| 4:45 PM | Closing Reception |
