Lucy Jordan, Senior contributing reporter for The Rio Times, Brazil

Lucy Jordan, Senior contributing reporter for The Rio Times, Brazil

Lucy Jordan, Senior contributing reporter for The Rio Times.

Lucy Jordan is also, oil and gas stringer for Platts, blogger for Americas Quarterly and a regular contributor to GlobalPost and the Independent.

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She was born and grew up in Norfolk, in the UK. She studied English Literature at Edinburgh University and later did an MA in journalism at City University in London. Lucy Jordan has  worked as a research assistant at the Village Voice in New York , a reporter at the Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh and now has been living In Brasilia since May 2012. 

For more about Lucy Jordan check her Blog  www.lucy-jordan.com

Paulo Pontes, Senior Managing Director at Michael Page International, Brazil

Paulo Pontes, Senior Managing Director at Michael Page International, Brazil

 Paulo Pontes is currently  Senior Managing Director of the Brazilian Operations of Michael Page with 13 business units and 3 Companies; Page Personnel, Michael Page and Page Executive.

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Recently Paulo Pontes made a presentation to the Business Affairs Committee at Amcham Campinas on Competitiveness in the Brazilian Human Resource and Labor Market and which he will share with the Talk 2 Brazil global audience.

Paulo was responsible for the Start Up of Michael Page Offices in Brazil and was the former Director of the Finance, Sales & Marketing Division at Michael Page and has been a Member of the Board of Michael Page Brazil since 2001.

His specialties are, Building Effective Teams, Dealing with Ambiguity, Conflict Management, Drive for Results, Motivation and principally a passion for helping others.

Salvador Raza, Director CeTRIS Technology, International Relations and Security Center

Salvador Raza, Director CeTRIS – Technology, International Relations and Security Center

The Brazil Defence Industry

Salvador Ghelfi Raza is Director General of CeTRIS – Technology, International Relations and Security Center, Coordinator of the International Relations FACAMP and Associate Professor of National Security Affairs at the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at the United States National Defense University (CHDS / NDU) in Washington, DC.

According to the magazine “Isto É”, “Salvador Ghelfi Raza is the only Brazilian working on the team hired by the Obama administration to propose a major reform in politics and also in the methods used by the United States worldwide. There are 30 Ph.Ds, the best brains in the world in security, defense and diplomacy analysis.

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Raza has a doctorate in strategic studies from UFRJ with postdoctoral in defense studies at the National Defense University in Washington, where he teaches.

Internationally-acknowledged leading World expert in Defense Analysis & Policy Planning, Force Design and Strategy Formulation.  Author of four books and more than 50 articles and chapters. Advanced experience in conflict assessment, policy development, and logistics.