Marcos Prado Troyjo
He served as Brazil's Deputy Minister of the Economy, in charge of Foreign Trade & International Affairs and was one of the negotiators of the Mercosur-European Union Agreement.Troyjo was also Director of the BRICLab at Columbia University, a Forum on Brazil, Russia, India and China he co-founded with Christian Deseglise.He serves on the Advisory Board of numerous think-tanks and academic institutions, including CEIBS (China Europe International Business School) and Global Neighbours.He was a Research Scholar at the Centre d`Études sur l`Actuel et le Quotidien, Université Paris Descartes (Sorbonne) and a member of the International Schumpeter Society.He is the author of such books as: Deglobalization: Chronicle of a Changing World (2016), Technology & Diplomacy: Challenges for International Scientific and Technological Cooperation, Brazil: Competitiveness in the Global Marketplace, Manifesto of Business Diplomacy, Trading Nation: Power & Prosperity in the 21st Century (chosen by Americas Quarterly as one of the best new books on policy, economics and business in the hemisphere in 2007).