Tatiana Prazeres is the Head Director of the Department of Trade and Foreign Affairs at the Federation of the Industries of the State of São Paulo (FIESP) in Brazil.

Prior to this appointment, she lived in Beijing for three years, where she worked as a Senior Fellow at the University of International Business and Economics    (UIBE).

Previously, Tatiana Prazeres was Senior Adviser to the Director-General of the World Trade Organization in Geneva between 2013 and 2018. Her portfolio included  trade negotiations, market access, services, investment,   agriculture, trade and environment, and engagement with the private sector.

Before that, at the age of thirty-one, Tatiana Prazeres became the youngest-ever Secretary of Foreign Trade of Brazil. During her term, she reformed Brazil’s trade-

remedies system, advanced trade-facilitation reforms, and secured government’s approval to pursue negotiations on investment-facilitation agreements.

Tatiana Prazeres teaches international trade at PUC-Rio, in Brazil, and writes a column on China   and international affairs for Folha de S. Paulo, one of Brazil’s most prestigious newspapers. She is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Center for China and Globalization, based in Beijing.

She holds a PhD in International Relations, and degrees in law and international relations. In 2014, she was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader.