Paulo Sotero, Wilson Center
Brazil Institute
Director
Washington, District of Columbia
paulo.sotero@wilsoncenter.org
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(202) 691-4271
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Paulo Sotero Marques is the director of the Brazil Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington. An award winning journalist, from 1989 to 2006 he was the Washington correspondent for Estado de S.Paulo, a leading Brazilian daily newspaper. Begun his career at V...
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Paulo Sotero Marques is the director of the Brazil Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington. An award winning journalist, from 1989 to 2006 he was the Washington correspondent for Estado de S.Paulo, a leading Brazilian daily newspaper. Begun his career at Veja in 1968. Worked for the magazine in São Paulo, Recife, Brasília, Paris. Was named correspondent in Portugal after the democratic revolution of April 25, 1974. In Washington since 1980, was correspondent for Istoé weekly magazine and the financial newspaper Gazeta Mecantil. Is a frequent guest commentator for the BBC, CNN, AlJazeera, Voice of America, National Public Radio, Globo News Television and the Brazilian Radio Network - CBN. Contributes regularly to Brazilian and international newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals. A native of the state of São Paulo, he holds a BA in History from the Catholic University of Pernambuco and an MA in Journalism and Public Affairs from the American University, in Washington D.C. Served as adjunct lecturer at Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Is currently in the adjunct faculty of the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. He is a member of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize of the Gratuate School of Journalism, Columbia University, GACINT - Grupo de Conjuntura Internacional, a forum of discussion of Brazilian foreign and trade policies at the University of São Paulo, and the Fernando Braudel Institute of World Economics, also based in São Paulo. Mr. Sotero is the recipient of the 1987 Maria Moors Cabot Award of Journalism and the 1993 Distinguished Visiting Lecturer award from the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. State Department. In Brazil, he was awarded the 1978 Prêmio Abril de Reportagem for a Veja investigative report on the assassination of Chilean general Carlos Prats by the Pinochet dictatorship.
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