Marcos Prado Troyjo

Marcos Prado Troyjo is a Brazilian entrepreneur, writer and diplomat. He is the founding director of the Center for Business Diplomacy, an independent think-tank on education, business and global affairs. Troyjo holds a PhD in sociology of international relations from the University of São Paulo. An economist and political scientist, he is an alumnus of The Rio Branco Institute (Instituto Rio Branco), the graduate school of international relations and diplomatic academy of Brazil's Ministry of External Relations.

He has participated at the Editorial Board of different media outlets in Brazil. He headed the Strategic Division of Brasilinvest, Brazil's foremost merchant bank. He served as a career diplomat and was Press Secretary at the Brazilian Mission to the United Nations in New York.

Troyjo is a lecturer in the MBA program of the University of São Paulo and at IBMEC University. He joined the "Leadership for the 21st Century" Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. 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 during its 2004 World Congress held in Fukuoka, Japan. Troyjo was the winner of the "Latin America Fellowship-2005" awarded by the Rt. Hon Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand. He teaches International Affairs at Columbia University, where he is the Co-Director of the BRICLab. He is a Research Scholar at the Centre d`Études sur l`Actuel et le Quotidien, Université Paris Descartes (Sorbonne) and a member of the International Schumpeter Society.

He is the author of such books as: Technology & Diplomacy, Brazil: Competitiveness in the Global Marketplace, Manifesto of Business Diplomacy, Trading Nation: Power & Prosperity in the 21st Century (chosen 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 world-renowned institutions such as Harvard University, Yale University, University of Washington, Columbia University, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),Tsinghua University (China), IE-Instituto de Empresa (Spain), IVA-The Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (Sweden), University of Auckland (New Zealand) and Canning House (UK).

References

• MIT Sloan School of Management - www.mitlac.com
• Harvard Kennedy School Biography Information - http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/alumni/online_community/hks-alumni-elections/bio-information
• Junior Chamber International - www.jci.cc
• Bloomberg - http://www.bloomberglink.com/gatherings_participants_bio.php?gathering=109&Id=2317

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