PROGRAM OF WORK - Brazil-US Business Council

Key Events
2010
January 13: Private roundtable discussion with
Thomas A. Shannon Jr., U.S. Ambassador to Brazil
(Washington, D.C.)
January 22: BUSBC annual advocacy mission to Brazil
to meet with government officials, member companies,
and local partners (Brasília, Brazil)
February 24: Annual BUSBC Strategic Planning
Meeting (Washington, D.C.)
March 5: Roundtable discussion with then-Senator
Ideli Salvatti, former Brazilian Senate leader and
now Brazil’s Secretary of Institutional Relations
(Washington, D.C.)
March 11: Roundtable discussion with Minister Luís
Inácio Lucena Adams, Brazilian Attorney General
(Washington, D.C.)
April 6: Brazil Forum event featuring Romeu
Temporal, Chief Economic Adviser to Brazil’s
Secretary of Planning; and Paulo Britto Guimarães,
Superintendent in the Secretariat of Industry,
Commerce, and Mining from the State of Bahia
(Washington, D.C.)
April 13: Event with Dr. Welber Barral, Brazil’s
then-Secretary of Foreign Trade
April 22: Brazil Forum event featuring Mauro
Vieira, Ambassador of Brazil to the United States
(Washington, D.C.)
April 23: Brazil Forum event featuring Augusto
Wagner Padilha Martins, Vice Minister of the Brazilian
Presidential Special Office for Port Development
(Washington, D.C.)
April 30: BUSBC event with Under Secretary of
Commerce for International Trade Francisco Sanchez
(Washington, D.C.)
June 7–10: Annual advocacy mission to Brazil
(Brasília, Brazil)
July 14: Brazil Forum Roundtable featuring Dr. Jorge
Ávila, President of the Brazilian Patent and Trademark
Office (INPI) (Washington, D.C.)
July 15: Brazil Forum event in conjunction with the
Woodrow Wilson Center’s Brazil Institute featuring
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Luciano Galvão Coutinho, President of the Brazilian
National Development Bank (BNDES) (Washington,
D.C.)
September 7: Brazil Forum Roundtable featuring
Guilherme Ramalho, Growth Acceleration Program
(PAC) Coordinator and Adviser in the Office of
Monitoring and Intergovernmental Affairs of the
Executive Office of the President—Casa Civil
(Washington, D.C.)
September 24: Brazil Forum Roundtable featuring
João Alziro Herz da Jornada, President of the Brazilian
National Institute for Metrology, Standardization, and
Industrial Quality (INMETRO) (Washington, D.C.)
September 29: Roundtable discussion on the FDA-
ANVISA dialogue featuring José Gomes Temporão,
Brazil’s then-Minister of Health; Dr. Dirceu
Raposo, then-President of Brazil’s National Sanitary
Surveillance Agency (ANVISA); and Mary Lou
Valdez, Associate Commissioner for International
Programs at FDA (Washington, D.C.)
October 8: 2010 Economic Conference co-hosted by
BUSBC featuring Guido Mantega, Brazil’s Minister
of Finance; Henrique Meirelles, then-President of
the Central Bank of Brazil; and Luciano Coutinho,
President of the Brazilian National Development Bank
(BNDES) (Washington, D.C.)
November 14: Kickoff for the Export Green: Growing
SME Exports to Brazil program at the America’s
Competitiveness Forum (ACF) (Washington, D.C.)
November 18: Roundtable on the Brazilian presidential
elections featuring Brazil’s then-Secretary for Foreign
Trade Welber Barral (Washington, D.C.)
December 7: BUSBC Plenary meeting
(São Paulo, Brazil)
2011
January 20: Roundtable discussion on Infrastructure
and Energy Opportunities in Brazil featuring Robert
D. Hormats, Under Secretary for Economic, Energy,
and Agricultural Affairs (Washington, D.C.)
February 11: BUSBC Infrastructure and Energy
mission to Brazil with Ambassador Jose Fernandez,
Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy, and
Business Affairs (Washington, D.C.)