In the few years of a right-wing government, Brazil has regressed decades in social, economic and environmental indexes.

We have returned to the map of hunger, we have stopped growing, and have deindustrialized. The covid pandemic and climate emergency demand that we radically change our model of development during the present decade. Brazil has all the conditions to be a global power that leads the transitions to a just and sustainable economy. For this to happen we must begin now.

This event will take place in Bush House Lecture Theatre 1.

About the speaker

Alessandro Molon is a lawyer and a law professor at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He has a Bachelor´s and Master´s  Degree in History from    the  Federal Fluminense University (UFF) and a PhD in Public Law  from the State  University of Rio de Janeiro(UERJ). He served two terms as Representative in the  State Legislature of Rio de Janeiro(Alerj).  He is now serving his third term as Federal Congressperson and is the current leader of the Opposition  in the Congress, a  position he also held in 2019. Mr Molon was the leader of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) in 2020 and was chosen The Best Brazilian Congressman by  the Congressional Prize in Foco in 2017,2019, and 2020. He prepared the official report on the  legislation regarding the Internet, an international reference on legislation of the web. His main battles are the reduction of inequality, for ethics and transparency in politics, more efficiency in public management, the improvement of public services- especially education and the transition to a fair and sustainable economy.