2025

• International Standards, Industrial Upgrading, and Innovation, The Watson Institute, Brown University, Providence, RI
• Climate Crossroads: From Forests and Food Systems to Finance and Carbon Markets, NY Climate Week, NYU 🔗
• Climate Solutions from and for the Amazon Region: Radical Collaboration Based on Science, Business, Local Knowledge and Networks, NY Climate Week, NYU 🔗
• Feeding a Climate Changed World, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
• Playing for Equality: Sports as a Tool for Social Transformation with Min. Anielle Franco, Center for Latin America & Caribbean Studies, NYU, New York, NY
• Tree Talks, Climate School, Columbia University, New York, NY, 🔗
• Doctoral and Postdoctoral Conference, The Climate Change Initiative, NYU 
• Leapfrogging Amazônia 3.0, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 🔗

2024

• Opportunities for Economic Development in the Amazon, PUC-Rio and Amazônia 2030, Belém, Brazil and online 
• A Conference in Honor of Susan S. Silbey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA
• Innovation, Sociobiodiversity & Amazônia, Oxford University and UFPA, Santarém and online
• Environmental Perspectives: Brazil and the USA in the Coming Years, FGV-Europe and Brazilian Consulate in NYC, Online
• Fullbright Amazonia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA and online
• Climate Policy and Climate Science: Road to COP30, NYU, with Instituto Arapyaú and ICS, New York Climate Week, NY
• From Forests to Farms, Regenerative Agriculture, O Mundo que Queremos and NYU, New York Climate Week, NY

2023

• Research Seminar, Amazônia 2030, Online
• Launch MIT-Amazonia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA 
• Science for the Amazon, FAPESP, New York Climate Week, NY 🔗
• Congress in International Relations, UFOPA, Santarém, Brazil and online
• MIT-Amazônia Seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA and online

2022

• Leapfrogging Amazônia 2.0, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 🔗

2021

• EU-Brazil Conference: Biodiversity and Climate Change, FGV-Europe, Online 
• Amazonian Futures , Princeton University, Online 🔗

2019

• 5th Annual Kagan Lecture in Law and Regulation (discussant), UC Berkeley, Law School, Berkeley, CA
• First Meeting of the Tendler Network,NYU, Wagner School, New York, NY 🔗
• Bolsonaro’s Environmental Policies and the future of the Amazon Rainforest, NYU, Wagner School, New York, NY 🔗

2018

• Reflections on the 2018 Brazilian Elections, Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, New York, NY
• Brazil in Crisis: Resistance and Solidarity in the 21st Century NYU, Institute for Public Knowledge, New York, NY

2016

• The Impeachment Process in Brazil: Next steps and implications, Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, New York, NY

2015

• Symposium on Brazil’s Model of Low Carbon Sustainable Development, Brown University, The Watson Institute, Providence, RI

2014

• Faculty Seminar: Enforcement of Labor Regulations, Cornell University, ILR School , Ithaca, NY
• Advances and Challenges in the Politics, Society, and Social Policies of Contemporary Brazil, Brown University, The Watson Institute, Providence, RI

2012

• Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies (SPURS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA

2011

• Graduate Research Seminar, Brown University, Dept. of Political Science, Providence, RI
• Festschrift for Judith Tendler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
• Latin America and Climate Change – Enforcing environmental laws in Brazil, Brown University, The Watson Institute, Providence, RI

2010

• The Rule of Law, Economic Development, and Modernization of the State in Brazil, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC 🔗
• Brazil in a Global Context: Culture, Foreign Policy, and Development,  NYU Gallatin, New York, NY

2009

• Workshop ‘Sociological Citizens: Solving problems … in markets, management and regulation’,Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
• Research Roundtable on the Supply Chains of the Future, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
• Faculty Seminar, Rutgers’ School of Management and Labor Relations New Brunswick, NJ

2006

• Workshop on Upgrading Clusters: Experiences of Asia and Latin America, FGV, Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2005

• Workshop on Institutional Challenges for Cluster Upgrading, FGV, Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil