New Haven, Conn. — Marcos Troyjo, a leading Brazilian political economist and diplomat, will speak at Yale University on October 15 at 2:00 p.m. in Room 211, Linsley-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street.
His talk is titled "Brazil in the 21st Century"The event, hosted by the Yale Globalist, Global 21, the Brazil Club and the Latin American Students Organization, is free and open to the public.
Troyjo is the Brazil CEO of Wisekey, a World leader in cloud computing and e-transactions. In recent years, Troyjo held leading positions in Brazil's media outlets. He holds a PhD in Sociology of International Relations from the University of Sao Paulo and concluded additional graduate studies at the Kennedy School, Harvard University. He was a Visiting Academic at Columbia University and is a Research Scholar at the Centre d'Etudes sur l'Actuel et le Quotidien, Universite Rene Descartes (Sorbonne Paris V).
He was Press Secretary at the Brazilian Mission to the United Nations in New York as well as a delegate to IT multilateral negotiations, including the United Nations Model Law on Electronic Signatures. Troyjo was also Chief of Staff of the Department for Technological Cooperation of Brazil's Ministry for Foreign Affairs. In such capacity he was involved in the development of the Global Information Infrastructure (GII).
Troyjo has been chosen one of "The Outstanding Young Persons of the World -TOYP" along with HM Queen Rania of Jordan and robotics scientist Takanori Shibata by the Junior Chamber International in its 2004 World Congress. He was also the winner of the "Latin America Fellowship-2005" awarded by Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand.
He is the author of books on economic development and technological change, including Technology & Diplomacy and Trading Nation: Power & Prosperity in the 21st Century (listed by Americas' Quarterly as one of the best new books on policy, economics and business in the hemisphere in 2007).
He has been a guest speaker at IVA-The Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (Sweden), University of Washington, Columbia University, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), IE-Instituto de Empresa (Spain), University of Auckland (New Zealand) and Canning House (UK).
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