User:Gustavo Westmann

Gustavo Westmann, São Paulo, Brazil, is a Brazilian diplomat, lecturer, writer and film-maker.

Political Counsellor at the Embassy of Brazil in India. Former Economic Counsellor at the Embassy of Brazil in Indonesia and Brazilian Commercial Attaché to Italy. In the course of his diplomatic career, he has been involved in several bilateral and market access negotiations and has worked at the Cultural, Energy and Trade Departments of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has also worked at the Secretariat of Strategic Affairs of the Presidency of Brazil and in some of the most prestigious Brazilian law firms.

Bachelor in Law (USP-SP) and International Relations (PUC-SP). Master in Diplomacy (IRBr), Master in International Public Affairs (LUISS-Rome) and Master in Public Policy (UC Berkeley). PhD candidate at OP Jindal, with a project focused on strategic planning in foreign policy. He has also a specialization in international public law from The Hague Academy of International Law.

Gustavo Westmann has been a visiting lecturer at Fudan University, Università Tor Vergata, Universitas Indonesia, PUC-RJ, EGN, ESG, as well as a keynote speaker at a number of seminars all over the world. Fluent in Portuguese, English, Italian, Spanish, French and Bahasa Indonesia, he is the author of the book Novos Olhares sobre a Política Externa Brasileira (New Perspectives on Brazilian Foreign Policy), published by the prestigious Brazilian publishing house Editora Contexto, in which he and other Brazilian thinkers constructively criticize the country’s foreign policy agenda and calls for a long-term strategic planning.

In 2018 Westmann launched the documentary Brasil, País do Presente? (Brazil: a time to build), which has been awarded by the Jakarta International Humanitarian & Culture Awards (JIHCA) and the Overcome Film Festival. The movie presents a discussion among representatives of Brazil’s progressive middle-class on the future of the country and has resulted in interesting and polemic debates in Brazil and abroad. His second documentary Via Sacra: arte e violência na Rocinha (Via Sacra: art and violence in the Brazilian slums) will be released in January 2019.