FGV and ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius are holding, in Rio de Janeiro, the first Latin American Forum on Global Governance (LAF), which aims to discuss the ways in which Latin America deals with the global challenges from the particularities of the various countries of the region.With a schedule of ten days, the seminar also includes topics such as the future of the global economy after the 2009 crisis and Latin America in this context, income inequality as an obstacle to full development, urbanization, sustainability, the relations with the European continent, emerging economies, energy, cyber security, technology and how public policy can trace strategies for these sectors. The debates are being moderated by the professor of FGV/EPGE - Brazilian Graduate School of Economics, Renato Flores, and Sascha Suhrke, of ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius.The event has the support of Daimler, Fundação Robert Bosch and the program ?Alemanha + Brasil 2013-14?, and follows the model of the Bucerius Summer School on Global Governance - held annually in Germany since 2001, and it is inspired by the summer seminars promoted by Henry Kissinger in the 1960s, at Harvard University.The Latin American Forum on Global Governance takes place until April 16 at FGV's main offices and Hotel Windsor Atlântica.National and international guestsThe forum is being attended by the researcher Oliver Stuenkel, CPDOC's coordinator in São Paulo and assistant professor of International Relations; Karen Smith, a researcher at Cape Town University, Guillermo Larraín; the vice president of the State Bank of Chile, Charles Kupchan, of Georgetown University; Benita Ferrero-Waldner, president of Fundação União Europeia ? América Latina e Caribe (UE-ALC); and Eberhard Sandschneider and Otto-Wolff, of the German Council on Foreign Relations.The forum is also being attended by José Botafogo Gonçalves, Ambassador and Vice President of the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI); Orazio Belletini, executive director of Faro Group in Ecuador; Steffen Kern, of the Economics and Financial Stability of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in France; Sergio Werlang, former director of Economic Policy of the Brazilian Central Bank; Daniela Carrera Marquis, representative of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Brazil; Raquel Rolnik, architecture and urbanism architect of USP; Sergio Besserman, Chairman of the Technical Board of Sustainable Development of the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro; and Sandro Gaycken, a researcher at Freie Universität, of Berlin, among others.Please click here and learn more.