Global Governance System Reform
“The youth of the G20 have the important task of putting the development of the largest economies in the world into perspective, questioning their sustainability and resilience in the face of challenges not only of the present, but also of what lies ahead for the future. In this process, it will be up to us, youth from the Global South, to guide the Reform of the Global Governance System, so that this development model meets the needs of all.”
At the age of 17, Leandro was selected in a scholarship program that took low-income young people to an exchange opportunity abroad. Based on this experience and the awareness that young people from countries like Brazil — in the Global South — shared similar desires and concerns, he began to question why, then, problems were replicated around the globe and why the visualization of opportunities for young people it differed depending on the context of each country.
Such questions generated a fundamental driving force for reflection for his academic and professional trajectory to date, which is precisely the task of understanding the reasons for countries' levels of economic development and the implications of this for their populations.
Leandro has a bachelor's degree in International Relations and a Master's degree in Latin American Integration from the University of São Paulo (USP). During his training, he was a fellow at the Association of Universities of the Montevideo Group (AUGM), at the Universidad de la Republica, and an international affairs intern at the Municipal Secretariat of Economic Development and Labor of the city of São Paulo. He currently works as a research fellow at the Directorate of International Studies at the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea) and as a Professor of the International Negotiations discipline of the International Relations course at the Catholic University of Brasília.
Through his training and political and professional experiences, he defends the potential of Brazilian and Latin American youth to formulate global policies on topics such as negotiating peace, advancing innovation and technology at the service of the population and promoting a sustainable and sustainable economy. solidarity. Leandro is committed to contributing to the construction of more inclusive and diverse international relations, for which the Global Governance System can guarantee effective multilateral cooperation for the entire planet, especially through the identification of possibilities for the inclusion of youth in global issues and development of instruments, based on multilateral cooperation, that enable young people in Brazil to propose better living conditions for the populations.
