Roberto Simon
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Wilson Center Projects
鈥淧inochet鈥檚 Brazil: Conspiracy and Terror in the Southern Cone鈥
Full Biography
Roberto Simon is a Brazilian journalist and political risk analyst based in New York. He is the author of 鈥淏razil against Democracy鈥 (Cia das Letras, LOM).
Simon currently serves as the team lead of UBS鈥 Client Intelligence Group. Previously he served as a columnist for Folha de S. Paulo, as Senior Director at Americas Society/Council of the Americas (AS/COA), managing the think-tank's Anti-Corruption Working Group, and as Politics Editor of Americas Quarterly. He was also the lead Latin America analyst for FTI Consulting's Geopolitical Intelligence group.
Simon has been published and quoted by a variety of Latin American and international media, including Foreign Affairs, FT, Reuters and WSJ. He began his career working for almost a decade as an international correspondent with Brazil's O Estado de S. Paulo daily, where he covered events in countries such as Haiti, Honduras, Paraguay, Israel, West Bank and Gaza, Iran and Egypt. He has a Master鈥檚 in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School and a Master鈥檚 in International Relations from the University of the State of S茫o Paulo (UNESP).
