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May 2, 2012

[SSJ: 7436] 【Notice】 Invitation to 64th GRIPS Forum on 21st May

From: GRIPS Forum
Date: 2012/05/02

Dear SSJ-Friends,

We are pleased to invite you to the next GRIPS Forum at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies on May 21.

Date: Monday, 21st May, 2012
Time: 16:40-18:10
Venue: GRIPS Sokairo Hall, 1st Floor
Speaker: Ambassador Marcos Bezerra Abbott Galvao, Ambassador of Brazil to Japan
Theme: “The global financial crisis and the reform of global governance — A Brazilian perspective”
Language: English, (Japanese simultaneous interpretation provided)
Fee: Attending the GRIPS Forum is free of charge but prior registration is recommended

The rise of the G-20 to the position of premier forum for economic cooperation, replacing the G-7/G-8 in that capacity, is the most visible expression of changes in international governance that were accelerated by the global financial crisis that began in 2008. In line with its broader foreign policy, Brazil has been an active participant in the Group's deliberations and continues to work hard for the inclusion -- as has already happened at the Financial Stability Board and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision -- and stronger presence of emerging and developing countries in the core of international decision-making. World order must be made more legitimate and, thereby, more effective.

Speakers’ Profile:
Ambassador Marcos Galvao - born in 1959 - graduated in 1980 from the Rio Branco Institute, the Brazilian diplomatic academy, and holds a Master's degree in International Affairs from The American University of Washington, DC, USA. He joined the diplomatic career, as Third Secretary, on September 2nd 1980.
Prior to being appointed Ambassador to Japan, he was Secretary (Vice-Minister) for International Affairs in Brazil's Ministry of Finance since January 2008, and in that capacity Finance Minister Deputy in the G-20 process.
At the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations, Ambassador Galvão held several positions, among which Assistant to the Secretary-General (1982-84) and Minister's Deputy Chief of Staff and Spokesman (1998-2001). In other government agencies, he was also Deputy Diplomatic Advisor to the President (1990-92), Advisor to the Minister of Finance (1994), as well as Minister's Chief of Staff both in the Ministry of the Environment (1993-94) and in the Ministry of Finance (2005-2007).
Overseas, Ambassador Galvão served at the Brazilian Mission to the Organization of American States, in Washington D. C. (1984-87), the Embassy in Asunción, Paraguay (1987-89), the Embassy in London, United Kingdom, (1995-98) and the Embassy in Washington, DC, USA (2001-05) – where he was Deputy Chief of Mission.
Ambassador Galvao taught various courses at the Rio Branco Institute, including Diplomatic Expression and Brazilian Foreign Policy.
Ambassador Galvão presented Letters of Credential to His Majesty the Emperor of Japan on March 25th, 2011.


For registration and inquiries, please contact:
GRIPS Forum
Email: gripsforum[at]grips.ac.jp
Tel: 03-6439-6037
Fax: 03-6439-6030

Please register by 18th May (Fri) 2012
*If you are arriving by a private car, please let us know the car information (type, color, and number) in advance so that we can register it for campus entry permission.


For Access & Map to the GRIPS campus: http://www.grips.ac.jp/about/access.html
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8677

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