The International Trade Regime of Critical Raw Materials and Global Value Chains: Challenges and Opportunities for Brazil

More about the speaker: Karla Borges Furlaneto

Partner at BFSA, Karla advises and counsels companies and associations in international economic law, with an emphasis on international trade issues, international contracts, investments, and other matters related to foreign trade.Throughout her career, she has been involved in a wide variety of business and legal issues, both in Brazil and in foreign jurisdictions.

Her work as a lawyer has been recognized as Who's Who in International Trade (2022).

With an extensive professional trajectory, Karla has experience in matters such as: leading multidisciplinary teams; taking part in management committees and councils of public-private entities and groups; supervising and issuing strategic opinions in studies; analyzing and defending clients on issues related to international trade and investments, international law and governmental relations.

She graduated from the Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), holds a masters’ degree in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a Ph.D. in International Trade Law from the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo (USP).

A scholar of international law and international trade, she is a law professor at ESPM, was a researcher and director of the Instituto de Direito do Comércio Internacional e Desenvolvimento - IDCID, linked to USP, a Fundação Ford scholar, and more recently a researcher at the Centro Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais - CEBRI. She has published several articles and book chapters.