Marcos Prado Troyjo

Marcos Prado Troyjo is a Brazilian political economist, entrepreneur, social scientist, writer and diplomat. He is Director of the BRICLab at Columbia University, a Forum on Brazil, Russia, India and China he co-founded with Christian Deseglise. He teaches "BRICS & Beyond" at Columbia University's SIPA (School of International and Public Affairs). He also founded and directed 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 is an op-ed columnist for Folha de S. Paulo, Brazil's biggest circulation newspaper, as well as for other media outlets in Brazil and around the world. Troyjo writes extensively on foreign affairs, global trade, rising powers, globalization, Brazil's political and economic prospects and Brazilian foreign policy. He serves on the Advisory Board of numerous for profit as well as not-for-profit institutions. He is a career diplomat and was Press Secretary at the Brazilian Mission to the United Nations in New York. He was the Brazilian speaker on World Press Freedom Day at UN Headquarters in New York in 2000-2001.
Troyjo is a Visiting Professor at RANEPA, the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. He is an Advisory Board member of the World Economic Forum Project on 'Best Practices of Brazilian Globalizers'. 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, and the "Invited Foreign Leader" of Japan Economic Foundation in 2012. 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: "Deglobalization: Chronicle of a Changing World" (2016), "Technology & Diplomacy: Challenges for International Scientific and Technological Cooperation", "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).
Troyjo 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), Cornell University, Brandeis University, Tsinghua University (China), University of International Business and Economics (China), Fudan University (China), CFAU (China Foreign Affairs University), IE-Instituto de Empresa (Spain), New Economic School (Russia), IVA-The Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (Sweden), ICRIER-Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (India), Hitotsubashi University (Japan), Keio University (Japan), Canon Institute of Global Studies (Japan), University of Auckland (New Zealand), Canning House (UK), Kedge Business School (France), Korean National Diplomatic Academy (South Korea), Seoul National University (South Korea) and the Council on Foreign Relations.