Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor, Fall 2022

Dr. Antonio Carlos Lessa is the Lemann Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Fall 2022 semester. Hailing from the Universidade de Brasília (UnB) where he is Full Professor of International Relations, Professor Lessa teaches courses on the History of Brazilian Foreign Policy in graduate and undergraduate programs. He also serves as Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Coordinator at UnB’s Center for Global Studies. He founded and coordinated the Center for Brazilian Foreign Policy Studies, a laboratory for graduate students in UnB’s Institute of International Relations as well as worked with the prestigious Brazilian Diplomatic Academy (Instituto Rio Branco) and other Brazilian governmental offices in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Education, Science and Technology and Defense. He has taught at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, in Argentina; the Universidad de la República, in Uruguay; and the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil; as well as served as fellow at the Centre d’Etudes sur le Brésil at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne, and at the University of Strasbourg, both in France.