CEO at CEBRI

Julia Dias Leite

About the expert

Biography Julia Dias Leite

Julia Dias Leite is the CEO of the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI), the leading think tank in Brazil for international relations. She is the first woman to hold the position since the organization's founding in 1998.

The executive has nearly three decades of experience, holding prominent positions in independent institutions in Brazil, developing relationships with private sectors, government, and official entities both nationally and internationally, such as in South America, the United States, and Asia. 

Recently, Julia became a member of the Advisory Board of the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), a nonprofit think tank founded in Milan, Italy, in 1934. 

In Brazil, she also serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors of Piemonte Holding and as a member of the Board of Directors of Elea Digital, a publicly traded company in the digital infrastructure sector. 

She is a member of the Superior Council of Foreign Trade – COSCEX of the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (FIESP). Additionally, Julia is a member of the City Council, a body of the Rio de Janeiro City Hall, and the Council of the Burle Marx Institute. 

Graduated in Law from Universidade Cândido Mendes, with an MBA in Business Management from FGV, Julia has also collaborated as a resident researcher at the Council of the Americas in New York, supporting work on Brazilian foreign policy.

PARTICIPATION IN EVENTS

07 may 2026

In-person events
CEBRI Conversa with Luiz Felipe Coutinho, André Clark and Ana Toni
  • Institutional

11 march 2026

In-person events
CEBRI Conversa with Pedro Parente and Pedro Malan
  • Institutional

19 august 2025

In-person events
De Francisco à Leão XIV: Transição e os Desafios para a Santa Sé

24 july 2025

Closed-door meetings
Trump: The Disruptor-Deadly of a World on the Brink of a Nervous Breakdown
  • Institutional

15 july 2025

Closed-door meetings
Lunch with Vibra Energia
  • Institutional

29 may 2025

Closed-door meetings
Trade wars and US-China competition in the long run

08 october 2024

Hybrid Event
Balancing Climate Action Between Carbon Markets and Environment Protection

24 july 2024

Closed-door meetings
Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI): Driving Responsible Digital Transformation

05 april 2024

Closed-door meetings
Tools for Evaluating Foreign Investments from the Perspective of Geopolitics, Reindustrialization and National Security

26 march 2024

Closed-door meetings
Scaling up Financing for the Energy Transition
  • Institutional

25 march 2024

Hybrid Event
Global mobilization and measures to combat climate change for a socially just ecological transformation

19 march 2024

Hybrid Event
Impacts of the New Geopolitics on Agribusiness

04 march 2024

Hybrid Event
T20 Brasil Inception Conference
  • T20

14 december 2023

Closed-door meetings
CEBRI São Paulo: Global Stocktake COP28
  • Institutional

10 november 2023

Conferences
CEBRI at 25: Where We Came From and Where We are Headed
  • Institutional

15 september 2023

Closed-door meetings
Reform Of The International Financial Architecture And Brazil’s G20 Presidency with Professor Michael Jacobs
  • Institutional

21 june 2023

Closed-door meetings
Conversation Brazil in the World: Summit Amazônia, G20, COP Dubai and COP30 in Brazil
  • Institutional

25 may 2023

Conferences
Strong Industry, Strong Country

11 may 2023

Closed-door meetings
China and the World After Covid | Rio de Janeiro

03 may 2023

Online events
The 30th anniversary of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
  • Institutional

04 april 2023

Online events
The military yesterday, today and tomorrow

10 january 2023

Closed-door meetings
Launch of the book "Brazil and the World: Studies about Gelson Fonseca Junior's thoughts"
  • Institutional

04 may 2022

Online events
Russia, Monetary Sanctions and the Dollar Hegemony

19 april 2022

Online events
How and why did the STF become so prominent?

11 april 2022

Online events
In Search of a New Paradigm for Monetary Policy

07 april 2022

Online events
How China Will Navigate Global Storms

28 march 2022

Online events
The Impact of Election Polls on Politicians and Voters

24 march 2022

Online events
Geopolitics and Challenges for Brazilian Agribusiness in Turbulent Times

22 march 2022

Online events
Schumpeter and the Creative Destruction Paradigm: Implications for Competition, Business Strategies and Development

16 march 2022

Online events
The Future of Science and Technology in the World and Brazil in the New Reality

24 february 2022

Online events
How does the world interfere in our elections?

11 february 2022

Online events
Where Do We Want to Go?

16 december 2021

Online events
Perspectives and Challenges for Brazilian Agribusiness in 2022

18 november 2021

Online events
Book Launch "Brazil in Global Agribusiness"

19 october 2021

Online events
Potential impacts of COP26 on Brazilian agribusiness

13 october 2021

Online events
The Conflict in Afghanistan
  • External Relations

20 september 2021

Online events
US and Latin America: Challenges for the Biden Administration

19 august 2021

Online events
Pesticides: Myths and Facts

23 july 2021

Online events
Kishore Mahbubani's online book launch “Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy"

08 july 2021

Online events
History of Brazilian Diplomacy: Lesson 18

06 july 2021

Online events
History of Brazilian Diplomacy: Lesson 17

02 july 2021

Online events
History of Brazilian Diplomacy: Lesson 14

01 july 2021

Online events
History of Brazilian Diplomacy: Lesson 16

17 june 2021

Online events
The Future of Pastures and the Revolution of Crop-Livestock-Forest Integration

17 june 2021

Online events
History of Brazilian Diplomacy: Lesson 12

10 june 2021

Online events
History of Brazilian Diplomacy: Lesson 11

03 june 2021

Online events
History of Brazilian Diplomacy: Lesson 10

01 june 2021

Online events
History of Brazilian Diplomacy: Lesson 9

27 may 2021

Online events
History of Brazilian Diplomacy: Lesson 8

25 may 2021

Online events
History of Brazilian Diplomacy: Lesson 7

20 may 2021

Online events
Brazilian Agribusiness from a Chinese Perspective

20 may 2021

Online events
History of Brazilian Diplomacy: Lesson 6

18 may 2021

Online events
History of Brazilian Diplomacy: Lesson 5

11 may 2021

Online events
History of Brazilian Diplomacy: Lesson 3

06 may 2021

Online events
History of Brazilian Diplomacy: Lesson 2

04 may 2021

Online events
History of Brazilian Diplomacy: Lesson 1

03 may 2021

Online events
Alexandre de Gusmão (1965-1753): the Statesman who Drew the Map of Brazil

30 april 2021

Online events
Sustainability and Brazilian Agribusiness: Myths and Opportunities

30 april 2021

Online events
100 Days of the Biden Administration: a Review

15 april 2021

Online events
Agriculture, Deforestation and the Forest Code

14 april 2021

Online events
Brazil-Africa Perspectives: Development and Cooperation

31 march 2021

Online events
China's Plans for the Next Era of Growth

25 march 2021

Online events
The Farmer’s Mind in the Digital Era – McKinsey Study 2021

24 march 2021

Online events
The Social and Political Crisis in Chile and Peru

11 march 2021

Online events
Railroads and Agribusiness

10 march 2021

Online events
Waste Land: Art, Sustainability and Social Inclusion

24 february 2021

Online events
Times of Crisis and Uncertainty: Why Think Tanks Matter

11 february 2021

Online events
A Plan B for the Vaccine: Responses at the Sub-National Level

04 february 2021

Online events
Land Purchase by Foreigners: Threat or Opportunity?

17 december 2020

Online events
The Amazon: Sustainable Agriculture and the Reconstruction of Brazil's Image

16 december 2020

Online events
The Reconstruction of Brazilian Foreign Policy

16 december 2020

Online events
CEBRI-FBDS Debates

09 december 2020

Online events
Energy and Sustainable Development in the Amazon Region

07 december 2020

Online events
Biden Administration Series: Impacts on Brazil

04 november 2020

Closed-door meetings
The Belt and Road in Latin America | Views from the Region

22 october 2020

Online events
Brasilia: the Awakening of a New Brazil

21 october 2020

Online events
A Conversation with Robert Zoellick on US Foreign Policy

06 october 2020

Online events
A Conversation with Ambassador Todd Chapman

01 october 2020

Online events
New Infrastructure and its Impacts on Agribusiness

17 september 2020

Online events
Brazil: An Example of a Sustainable Cattle Industry?

15 september 2020

Online events
US-China Tensions and Brazil's Position

10 september 2020

Online events
Fake News and Foreign Policy

08 september 2020

Online events
Conversations with Jô: Rio as a Backdrop

04 september 2020

Online events
The Oil Industry after the Twin Shocks: A Conversation with Lord Browne

21 august 2020

Online events
Global Trade Scene and EU Developments

13 august 2020

Online events
Conversations on Brazil| An Outline of Brazilian Foreign Policy

10 august 2020

Online events
Before and after the Global Crisis: the Future of the Brazilian Health System

31 july 2020

Online events
The Military and Politics in Brazil

30 july 2020

Online events
Culture as a Long-term Vision: the Role of the State, Civil Society and Businesses

29 july 2020

Online events
Zoonoses, One Health & Food Safety

20 july 2020

Online events
Capital Markets and post-Pandemic Growth: the Role of National and International Financial Institutions

14 july 2020

Online events
The Amazon by Sebastião Salgado

06 july 2020

Online events
Brazil and the Global Crises of Unemployment, Covid-19, and the Environment

30 june 2020

Online events
The World After Covid-19: A Conversation with Martin Wolf

23 june 2020

Online events
The Effect of Covid-19 on Geopolitics

22 june 2020

Online events
Conversations on Brazil with Governor Flávio Dino

18 june 2020

Online events
The Internationalization of the Renminbi

17 june 2020

Online events
From the Pandemic to Utopia - Second Edition: Rio without Substandard Housing in 2040

15 june 2020

Online events
Fintechs, Innovation and the Financial Market Revolution

10 june 2020

Online events
Economic Transformations and Post-Pandemic Trade

09 june 2020

Closed-door meetings
The Global Agenda and Perspectives for an Economic Recovery

03 june 2020

Online events
Energia: reflexões e perspectivas

01 june 2020

Online events
COVID-19: The Geopolitical Recession, and Brazil’s Perspectives

26 may 2020

Online events
Conversation about Brazil with Minister Sergio Moro

22 may 2020

Online events
Global Perspectives on Brazilian Agribusiness post-Covid-19

14 may 2020

Online events
Waiting for Godot: The Perfect Storm

13 may 2020

Online events
Will the Shock of the Pandemic Awaken the World to the Catastrophic Risks of Climate Change?

11 may 2020

Online events
The Relationship between the State, Market and Civil Society in the Post-Pandemic World

04 may 2020

Online events
A Post-Covid-19 Global Agenda and its Possible Protagonists

29 april 2020

Online events
Market, State and Society: the Future of Brazil in Light of the Chinese Experience

28 april 2020

Online events
Pandemics throughout History: What Does the Past Teach Us about the Post-Covid-19 World?

15 april 2020

Online events
Coronavirus as a Game Changer: Perspectives from Brazilian Foreign Policy

13 april 2020

Online events
From the Recession to Economic Recovery: How Long Will the Journey Be?

02 april 2020

Online events
China and the New Coronavirus: Challenges of an Interconnected World

21 november 2017

In-person events
Breaking News | The Clash of Globalizations: Impacts on Brazil

04 august 2017

In-person events
Debate |"Dynamic and Articulated International Women Always" Group (MIDAS)

07 april 2017

In-person events
Lecture | Brazil’s Role in the Global Economy
  • Brazil

15 march 2017

In-person events
Seminar | Challenges of Brazilian Foreign Policy | Brasília
  • Brazil

09 july 2026

Closed-door meetings
Brazil on the Investment Map: Diversifying Global Partnerships in a Multipolar World

09 august 2024

Closed-door meetings
O Brasil pode ser um parceiro preferencial na provisão de minerais críticos e estratégicos e no desenvolvimento de suas cadeias produtivas?

26 june 2024

Hybrid Event
Bridging Business and Academia: Pathways for Trade and Sustainable Development

10 august 2023

Online events
Virtual Conversation about T20 Brazil
  • T20

27 august 2020

Online events
Leadership in Times of Crisis

21 july 2020

Online events
Conversation on Brazil | The Judiciary between Activism and Proactivity

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