Aluisio Lima-Campos
Professor Lima-Campos combines 10 years of experience in financial markets with over 35 years of practice in trade policy and business diplomacy. He has been economic advisor to the Embassy of Brazil in Washington since 1981, a trade policy professor at American University since 2007, a highly rated former WTO trade policy instructor, a former Brazilian delegate to the International Cotton Advisory Committee, with countless articles published on international trade topics and three books, the most recent a textbook, “Introduction to Trade Policy” (2018), by Routledge, co-authored with Juan Antonio Gaviria. He holds a B.A. in Economics and an M.A. in Development Banking from the American University.
Sergio Goldbaum
Sergio Goldbaum holds a Doctor’s and a Master’s degrees in Economics from Fundação Getulio Vargas Business School in São Paulo, and a BA degree in Economics from University of São Paulo. He is currently a lecturer professor at the Business School of FGV in São Paulo (EAESP) and the School of Public Policy and Government of FGV in Brasilia (EPPG), where he teaches Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Law and Economics, and Environmental Economics. He is also partner at GPM Consultoria Economica. His academic and professional activities are focused on International Trade, Antitrust, Infrastructure Regulation and Environmental Economics. A more comprehensive academic CV can be found at http://lattes.cnpq.br/8198172366774328
Chiara Pappalardo
Chiara is a licensed attorney and legal scholar engaged in research at the intersection of energy and environmental law with climate change and the energy transition. She is particularly interested in how countries’ environmental and energy policies, laws and administrative processes affect trade negotiations and the implementation of trade agreements and vice versa. From 2015 to 2019, Chiara was a visiting research scholar at American University Washington College of Law in Washington DC where, among other curricular and extracurricular activities, she designed and taught a semester course covering trade and investment issues affecting the energy sector. She also taught an introduction to trade policy summer course together with Aluisio de Lima-Campos. Chiara holds a Doctorate in Law from Georgetown University Law Center; two Masters of Laws from The George Washington University Law School with a focus on energy and environmental law; a bachelor’s degree in law from La Sapienza University in Rome and a master’s degree in public policy with a focus on the protection of the Culture Heritage from the business school at Tor Vergata University of Rome. Her research can be accessed at her Author’s page on SSRN.
Luiza Nonato
Luiza Nonato is a lawyer specializing in international trade, providing clients with support on various trade matters. She is also an academic with a multidisciplinary background, holding a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from Mackenzie University and a Bachelor’s in International Relations from São Paulo State University, along with a Master’s and Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of São Paulo. Luiza has gained valuable experience as an intern at the Brazilian Mission to the World Trade Organization in Geneva. Additionally, she has studied abroad as an exchange student in the Master’s program in International Economic Policy at Sciences Po, Paris School of International Affairs. Her research interests lie at the intersection of law, international relations, international trade, and technology.
Vera Kanas
Vera Kanas is a Partner at VK Law since March 2024. Previously, she was the partner responsible for the International Trade practice at TozziniFreire Advogados, from 2011 to 2024. Vera is a lawyer with over 20 years of experience in international trade, assisting Brazilian and foreign companies with matters related to trade remedies, international agreements, import and export operations, supply chain logistics, customs law, and trade compliance. Vera holds a Master’s degree in International Economic Law from Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and a Ph.D. in International Law from the Faculty of Law at the University of São Paulo.
Carolina Maciel
Carolina Maciel is an international trade lawyer and policy specialist focused on food system regulations, emphasizing safety, environmental standards, and animal protection. Currently, she is a research fellow at the UK Trade Policy Observatory at the University of Sussex, working on the project “Irish-UK Future Food Systems: Policy, Regulation, and Transformation.” Previously, Carolina served as Senior Advisor on International Trade Law and Policy for the World Federation for Animals (WFA) and as a consultant for the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), along with various governmental and non-governmental organizations. She holds a Ph.D. from Wageningen University (The Netherlands), an LLM from Harvard Law School (United States), and a master’s degree in Political Sociology from Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil).
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