Sérgio Fausto

He is a political scientist and superintendent of the Fernando Henrique Cardoso Foundation. He co-directs the Democracy Platform Project and the Collection "The State of Democracy in Latin America". Organizer of Difficult Democracy (Paz e Terra, 2011) and co-author of Brasil y América del Sur: Miradas Cruzadas (2011) and Brazil and Latin America: what kind of leadership is possible (2012). He regularly writes for the newspaper 'O Estado de São Paulo' and for INFOLATAM - Información y Análisis sobre América Latina. He is a contributing expert of the Latin American Program of the James Baker Institut of Rice University and member of the International Conjuncture Analysis Group of the University of São Paulo (GACINT-USP). He was an adviser to the Brazilian Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Development and Foreign Trade, and the Ministry of Planning from 1995 to 2002. In 2012, he received the Gus Hart award from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, awarded to prominent politicians or public intellectuals in Latin America.