Julia Dias Leite is CEO of the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI), Brazil's leading international relations think tank, and chairman of the Board of Directors of Piemonte Holding. She has led some of the most renowned independent foreign affairs institutions in Brazil, bringing together a vast network of private sector, government offices and official organizations in Brazil and abroad. Previously, she was Executive Secretary of the China-Brazil Business Council. Julia was also a researcher-in-residence at the Council of Americas, in New York, and a non-resident fellow at the Asia & Latin America Program of the Inter-American Dialogue, in Washington.