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H.E. Eduardo dos Santos
Ambassador Eduardo dos Santos holds a degree in Legal and Social Studies from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and has been a career diplomat since 1975.
He has held various high-level positions at the Ministry of External Relations and other government agencies. He served at the embassies in Moscow, Buenos Aires and London (twice), and subsequently as ambassador in Montevideo, Bern and Asunción. He has also served as advisor to the office of the Foreign Minister (1986-1989 and 1992-1993), special advisor to the office of the Finance Minister (1993) and diplomatic advisor to the President (1999-2002). He held the office of Secretary-General at the Ministry of External Relations from 2013, before being appointed as Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 2015.
He has led various Brazilian delegations at international conferences and high-level meetings. He has also performed the roles of teacher and examiner at Brazil’s diplomatic academy (Rio Branco Institute), and written numerous articles for specialised foreign affairs publications.
During his long diplomatic career Ambassador Eduardo dos Santos has received honours and awards in various different countries, including the Royal Victorian Order (Honorary Commander) in the United Kingdom in 1997.
John Doddrell
John Doddrell is Her Majesty’s Consul General in Sao Paulo and Director for UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) in Brazil, having taken appointment in March 2010. Previously as Director of Strategy at UKTI he developed an ambitious new strategy that positioned UKTI at the heart of the UK’s response to globalisation. John also has private sector experience, having worked as Manager in the Strategy Department of Shell International.
Prof. Laura Rodrigues
Laura C Rodrigues is a Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology. Her academic responsibilities include initiating and executing research on the epidemiology of infectious diseases, both in England and internationally, and development of teaching in epidemiological methods, with emphasis on infectious diseases. Laura was born and trained in Brazil, and has been in the LSHTM since 1981. Laura sits in the Scientific Advisory Board of the Novartis Institutes for Vaccines and Global Health in Sienna.She leads the LSHTM intitative for collaborations with Latin America, co leads the Latina America Network (with Pablo Perel), is the LSHTM academic contact for Science without Borders and is a Science without Borders "Professor Visitante Especial" in Universidade Federal da Bahia, a member of theMedicine Galleries Advisory Board of the Science Museum, London and a fellow of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
H.E. Eduardo dos Santos
Ambassador Eduardo dos Santos holds a degree in Legal and Social Studies from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and has been a career diplomat since 1975.
He has held various high-level positions at the Ministry of External Relations and other government agencies. He served at the embassies in Moscow, Buenos Aires and London (twice), and subsequently as ambassador in Montevideo, Bern and Asunción. He has also served as advisor to the office of the Foreign Minister (1986-1989 and 1992-1993), special advisor to the office of the Finance Minister (1993) and diplomatic advisor to the President (1999-2002). He held the office of Secretary-General at the Ministry of External Relations from 2013, before being appointed as Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 2015.
He has led various Brazilian delegations at international conferences and high-level meetings. He has also performed the roles of teacher and examiner at Brazil’s diplomatic academy (Rio Branco Institute), and written numerous articles for specialised foreign affairs publications.
During his long diplomatic career Ambassador Eduardo dos Santos has received honours and awards in various different countries, including the Royal Victorian Order (Honorary Commander) in the United Kingdom in 1997.
Maria CecÃlia Barcelos Cavalcante Vieira
Maria CecÃlia B. Cavalcante Vieira is a Brazilian diplomat, and is the current Head of Science, Technology & Innovation and of Education at the Embassy of Brazil in London. Ms. Vieira joined the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2007, where she has worked on African and Environmental affairs. She was one of the leading Brazilian negotiators for the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing in Biodiversity. Ms. Vieira has held short term-assignments in Africa, and has previously been posted to India, where she served as the Brazilian Science, Technology & Innovation attachée, and Deputy Head of the Political Section. She holds a major in Journalism (UnB), and Master Degrees in International Relations (PUC-Rio) and Diplomacy (Rio Branco Institute).
H.E. Eduardo dos Santos
Ambassador Eduardo dos Santos holds a degree in Legal and Social Studies from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and has been a career diplomat since 1975.
He has held various high-level positions at the Ministry of External Relations and other government agencies. He served at the embassies in Moscow, Buenos Aires and London (twice), and subsequently as ambassador in Montevideo, Bern and Asunción. He has also served as advisor to the office of the Foreign Minister (1986-1989 and 1992-1993), special advisor to the office of the Finance Minister (1993) and diplomatic advisor to the President (1999-2002). He held the office of Secretary-General at the Ministry of External Relations from 2013, before being appointed as Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 2015.
He has led various Brazilian delegations at international conferences and high-level meetings. He has also performed the roles of teacher and examiner at Brazil’s diplomatic academy (Rio Branco Institute), and written numerous articles for specialised foreign affairs publications.
During his long diplomatic career Ambassador Eduardo dos Santos has received honours and awards in various different countries, including the Royal Victorian Order (Honorary Commander) in the United Kingdom in 1997.
Dr. Vania Braga
Vania Braga is currently a Reader in Cell-cell Adhesion Signalling. She graduated in Biology from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil and did her post-graduate studies in Biochemistry at the same university. Her post-doctoral training was at Imperial Cancer Research UK (now Cancer Research UK). She started her own lab in 1995 at the MRC-Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Biology, University College London. In 2001, she was awarded the prestigious MRC Non-Clinical Senior Fellowship and moved to the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London. She was later promoted to Senior Lecturer (2005) and Reader (2008). In 2012, she was appointed South Kensington Campus Dean for the Faculty of Medicine and Deputy-head of the Molecular Medicine Section, NHLI. Vania Braga is a Post-graduate tutor for the National Heart and Lung Institute and heavily involved in post-graduate teaching, mentoring and supervision. Outreach activities and support for undergraduate students (national and international) such as mentoring and lab experience are also part of the ethos of the lab.
H.E. Eduardo dos Santos
Ambassador Eduardo dos Santos holds a degree in Legal and Social Studies from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and has been a career diplomat since 1975.
He has held various high-level positions at the Ministry of External Relations and other government agencies. He served at the embassies in Moscow, Buenos Aires and London (twice), and subsequently as ambassador in Montevideo, Bern and Asunción. He has also served as advisor to the office of the Foreign Minister (1986-1989 and 1992-1993), special advisor to the office of the Finance Minister (1993) and diplomatic advisor to the President (1999-2002). He held the office of Secretary-General at the Ministry of External Relations from 2013, before being appointed as Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 2015.
He has led various Brazilian delegations at international conferences and high-level meetings. He has also performed the roles of teacher and examiner at Brazil’s diplomatic academy (Rio Branco Institute), and written numerous articles for specialised foreign affairs publications.
During his long diplomatic career Ambassador Eduardo dos Santos has received honours and awards in various different countries, including the Royal Victorian Order (Honorary Commander) in the United Kingdom in 1997.
Dr. Sergio Bertazzo
Dr. Sergio Bertazzo is a Lecturer at the Department of Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering.
He joined UCL after been Junior Research Fellow at Imperial College London and a postdoctoral stay in Germany and another in Brazil. Dr Bertazzo received a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Campinas. His undergraduate and postgraduate research on biomineralisation, focused mainly on calcium phosphates, was continuously supported by individual grants.
In addition to research grants, Dr. Bertazzo has been awarded several prizes, including the Wellcome Image Award and the C. Walton Lillehei Young Investigator Award, from the Society for Heart Valve Disease and the Heart Valve Society of America, for the most promising research in cardiac valve disease.
Dr. Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva
Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva joined UCL in 2014 and has a degree in Portuguese (1995) and an MA in Literary Theory and History from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP, 1997). She also holds an MA in European Literature (2003) and DPhil in Brazilian Literature (2007) from the University of Oxford. She has also taught at the University of Surrey, Birckbeck College, the University of Oxford, the University of Birmingham. She was a research fellow at UNICAMP in 2012 and at the Institut des Textes et Modernes (ITEM) in 1998-1999. Since 2011 she is an active member of the international research networks "The transatlantic circulation of printed matter: the globalization of culture in the nineteenth century" (FAPESP) and "Intertextual relations in the works of Machado de Assis" (CNPq). She is the recipient of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry International Award for best essays on Machado de Assis (2006).
Prof. Anthony Pereira
Professor Pereira is currently Director of the Brazil Institute at King's College London. His current work concerns citizenship, human rights, public security, and state coercion in Brazil. This includes a study of the performance of a relatively new human rights institution, the police ombudsman, in two different states in Brazil, as well as an analysis of some recent efforts to reform the police. Anthony has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) and is an occasional commentator for BBC Brazil.
Andy Donaghue
Technical and commercial professional with 15 years experience in energy and chemicals sectors. International experience in renewables and energy efficiency, including:
- project management
- commercial operations
- strategy development, business planning and performance management
- financial structuring and project finance
Specialties: renewable energy, investment appraisal, project management, joint venture set-up and operation
Vivienne Stern
Vivienne is the Director of the UK Higher Education International Unit which represents the UK higher education sector internationally. The Unit works to support the UK higher education sector's international activities, and to promote its distinctive strengths overseas.
Prior to her role in the Unit, Vivienne was Head of Political Affairs at Universities UK where she was responsible for developing and implementing the political strategy for the membership body representing 134 UK Universities. She previously worked in the UK Parliament for the Chair of the Education and Skills Select Committee, and as a Policy Advisor for Universities UK, specialising in quality, student experience, innovation and university-business links. She is a graduate in English Literature from the University of Cambridge.
Dr. Marco Vieira
Dr. Vieira joined POLSIS in January 2010 having previously taught international relations at LSE, King’s College and SOAS. His research is currently focused on the rising influence of ‘South powers’, specially South Africa, India and Brazil, and their growing importance in reshaping global governance structures, including areas such as institutional frameworks to tackle climate change, international trade and finance, and the reform of UN’s Security Council. Dr. Vieira is also interested in Brazilian foreign policy and the role of Brazil in South American politics.
As part of his PhD, Dr. Vieira has researched and written widely on global governance mechanisms to address the most important public health crisis of our time, namely the HIV/AIDS global pandemic. The study innovatively develops theoretical and conceptual insights on the problem of achieving ‘security’ in international relations. It also provides a detailed empirical analysis of HIV / AIDS policy responses in Botswana, Mozambique and South Africa. He has a solid understanding of security debates in International Relations (IR), especially in relation to the challenges posed by non-traditional threats (disease, climate change, famine, etc.) to international peace and stability.
Dr. Alexandre Strapasson
Alexandre Strapasson is an Honorary Research Fellow working on the global dynamics of energy, carbon and land use, and international development. He is also a Visiting Lecturer in Renewable Energies at IFP School in Paris, and an academic supervisor at SOAS, University of London. He was one of the lead modellers of the Global Calculator Project, and a joint Principal Investigator of the research project 'Land Use Futures in Europe' developed in collaboration with the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Before moving to the UK in 2010, Strapasson worked for several years at the Brazilian Government, particularly as Director of the Department of Bioenergy at the Ministry of Agriculture.
Besides, he was the Brazilian representative for sustainability affairs under the Brazil-USA MoU in Bioenergy, and collaborated with several developing countries and international organisations, such as the FAO, IICA, ISO and GBEP. Previously to these experiences, he was a UNDP Consultant for Energy and Climate Change at the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment, including the participation in international negotiations at the UNFCCC.
H.E. Eduardo dos Santos
Ambassador Eduardo dos Santos holds a degree in Legal and Social Studies from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and has been a career diplomat since 1975.
He has held various high-level positions at the Ministry of External Relations and other government agencies. He served at the embassies in Moscow, Buenos Aires and London (twice), and subsequently as ambassador in Montevideo, Bern and Asunción. He has also served as advisor to the office of the Foreign Minister (1986-1989 and 1992-1993), special advisor to the office of the Finance Minister (1993) and diplomatic advisor to the President (1999-2002). He held the office of Secretary-General at the Ministry of External Relations from 2013, before being appointed as Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 2015.
He has led various Brazilian delegations at international conferences and high-level meetings. He has also performed the roles of teacher and examiner at Brazil’s diplomatic academy (Rio Branco Institute), and written numerous articles for specialised foreign affairs publications.
During his long diplomatic career Ambassador Eduardo dos Santos has received honours and awards in various different countries, including the Royal Victorian Order (Honorary Commander) in the United Kingdom in 1997.
Dr. Fernando Vasconcellos
Fernando obtained a B.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2000. From the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), he received a M.Sc. (2007) and a Ph.D. degree, in a joint program with MIT, (2011) in Chemical Engineering. He served as Professor in the Department of Production Engineering of FACAMP, Campinas, São Paulo (2011-2012). Fernando has professional experience in the design, management and execution of engineering projects in multinational companies. He has broad international research and industry experience in the chemical engineering and biotechnology sectors, and he has been part of the founding team of two technology start-up companies in Brazil.
Dr. Tania Lima
Dr. Tania Lima is the Director of the Global Engagement at King’s College. Previouslyshe worked as the Programme Director of Science without Borders UK at the UK HigherEducation International Unit Tania has a BSc in Biology from Universidade de Sao Pauloand, as a sandwich student from Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, did her researchfor a PhD in Molecular Biology at New York University, where she was also a post-doctoralfellow. She worked as an annotator of microbial genomes and subsequently asProgramme Head at Swiss-Prot in Geneva, Switzerland from 2001 until 2008. During hertime at Swiss-Prot she participated in several international collaborative initiatives ingenomics, bioinformatics and proteomics, as well as the training of researchers fromJapan, Brazil and the U.S.A. Tania was appointed Science Operations Manager at theNational Cancer Research Institute in London in 2010, where she led NCRI’s internationalcollaborations in cancer research, with a particular focus on international consortiaand global partnerships.
