Celso Lafer

Professor of Philosophy of law at University of São Paulo and President of FAPESP (São Paulo Foundation for the Advancement of Research). He was Minister of Foreign Relations, Minister of Development, Industry and Trade, Ambassador-Permanent Representative of Brazil to the WTO, the UN and the specialized agencies in Geneva. In 2006, he was the Countries and Cultures Chair at the John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. He holds a PhD at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.