Last week, the Chairman at the Board of Trustee, José Pio Borges, and the CEO, Julia Dias Leite, attended to a series of meeting in Washington with leaders of important American think tanks to strengthen, update and widen relations with these institutions. As Brazil hosts the G20 and CEBRI is coordinating the T20, the exchange of information and the formation of partnerships are even more important. 

t the Atlantic Council, CEBRI leaders talked to Valentina Saber and Jason Marczak about partnerships in sustainable development and climate resilience in cities, an urgent issue, as the tragedy in Rio Grande do Sul shows, as well as collaboration in the work of the G20 and T20. 

Cooperation in the G20 and T20 was also one of the subjects of the visit to the Albright Stonebridge Group. Founded by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, it is one of the world's leading political advisory firms and its clients include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This contact began last year, when CEBRI received representatives from the Foundation.

At CSIS, the Center for Strategic International Studies, the meeting with the president, John Hamre, was aimed at strengthening the cooperation between the two institutions. The visit to the Inter-American Dialogue dealt with sustainability in cities and a project in the area of technology aimed at women, with the promotion of policies and practices to encourage female participation in this field, increasing representation. 

A visit to Johns Hopkins University focused on joint courses and student exchanges. The itinerary also included the Quinzy Institute, a new think tank in the American capital, founded just five years ago.

Besides the visits, the agenda included meetings. With Ricardo Zúniga, a former diplomat who was a member of the National Security Council and founder of the consultancy Dinámica Americas, they discussed a partnership in events to discuss transnational organized crime. José Pio Borges and Julia Dias Leite also met the Former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, Thomas Shannon, and the Brazilian Ambassador to the United States of America and Trustee at CEBRI, Maria Luiza Viotti, a reference in diplomacy.