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Paulo Sotero
Director
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Brazil Institute
Director, Brazil Institute, Latin American Program
Phone: 202/691-4271
Email: paulo.sotero@wilsoncenter.org
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Affiliation
Director, Brazil Institute
Expertise
Latin America, with particular emphasis on Brazil, contemporary politics, and the media
Experience
Washington correspondent for O Estado de S. Paulo; commentator and analyst for national and international news outlets; adjunct lecturer of Brazilian politics and the media at Georgetown University; writer and lecturer on Brazilian and Latin American affairs and Brazil-U.S. relations
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Biography
Paulo Sotero Marques is the director of the Brazil Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center. From 1989 until he joined the Wilson Center, on 2006, he was the Washington correspondent for Estado de S.Paulo, a leading Brazilian daily newspaper. He has also been a regular commentator and analyst for the BBC radio Portuguese language service, Radio France Internationale, and is a contributor to newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals. From 2003 to 2006, he served as adjunct lecturer at Georgetown University Center for Latin American Studies of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. In 2009, he joined the adjunct faculty of the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.
Mr. Sotero is a frequent lecturer on Brazilian affairs at U.S. universities and think tanks, and has appeared on national radio and television news programs. A native of São Paulo, he started his career in journalism at Veja weekly magazine in 1968 and held positions in Recife, Paris, Lisbon, São Paulo, and Brasília. In Washington, he worked also as correspondent for Istoé weekly magazine and the financial daily Gazeta Mercantil.
Mr. Sotero is the recipient of the 1987 Maria Moors Cabot Award, from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and the 1993 Distinguished Visiting Lecturer award from the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. State Department. In Brazil, he was awarded the 1978 Prêmio Abril de Reportagem for a Veja cover story on Paraguay and for an investigative report on the assassination of Chilean general Carlos Prats. He is a member of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize Board, the Grupo de Conjuntura Internacional, a forum of discussion of Brazilian foreign and trade policies at the University of São Paulo, and the Fernando Braudel Institute of World Economics, also based in São Paulo.
Education
M.A., Journalism and Public Affairs, American University, Washington, D.C.
| Record updated: 04/05/2010 |
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