Fundação Getulio Vargas’ Sao Paulo School of Economics (FGV EESP) is holding another webinar in its “Amazon Dialogues” series, to discuss visions of the Amazon, on January 29, at 7 p.m. Those interested in taking part should sign up here.

The aim of this episode is to discuss the present and future of the Amazon. Understanding the region is the starting point for building strategies for its sustainable socioeconomic development. To this end, the debate will feature a historian and writer and an entrepreneur, both great thinkers on the region, to try to understand how the Amazon has been developing and the paths to its prosperity, while keeping the forest standing.

Guests:

Etelvina Garcia, historian, journalist and author of several books on the Amazon

Denis Minev, CEO of Bemol and World Economic Forum Young Global Leader

Moderators:

Márcio Holland, professor at FGV EESP, coordinator of its Finance and Economics Master’s Program and columnist for Broadcast/Agência Estado

Daniel Vargas, professor at FGV EESP, coordinator of FGV’s Bioeconomy Observatory and visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, England, and the University of Bonn, Germany

The event is part of the Amazon Dialogues, a digital platform to discuss topics related to sustainable socioeconomic development in the Brazilian Amazon with the whole of organized civil society.