Marcos Prado Troyjo is President of the New Development Bank (NDB). He was unanimously elected to lead the multilateral development bank for a five-year mandate (2020-2025) by the NDB's Board of Governors on May 27, 2020. Troyjo is a Brazilian political economist, entrepreneur, social scientist, diplomat and writer. He was one of the lead negotiators in the conclusive round of talks that established the Mercosur-European Union Agreement, the biggest treaty between economic blocs in world trade history. Prior to his current position, Troyjo served as Brazil's Deputy Minister of the Economy, in charge of Foreign Trade & International Affairs. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the NDB, where he also served as Director for Brazil. He was Brazil's Alternate Governor at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), a member of the World Bank's Development Committee and a representative at board level in many other multilateral development institutions. Troyjo was also Director of the BRICLab at Columbia University, a Forum on Brazil, Russia, India and China he co-founded with Christian Deseglise. He taught at Columbia University's SIPA (School of International and Public Affairs) and was a Faculty Associate of Columbia's Center on Global Economic Governance (CGEG). He founded and directed the Center for Business Diplomacy, an independent think-tank on education, business and global affairs. He is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on International Trade and Investment. He was Director of the Intelligent Tech & Trade Initiative (ITTI) under the auspices of the International Chamber of Commerce, examining the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on global trade. He holds a PhD in sociology of international relations from the University of São Paulo and did postdoctoral studies at Columbia. An economist and political scientist, Troyjo is an alumnus of The Rio Branco Institute (Instituto Rio Branco), the graduate school of international relations and diplomatic academy of Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was an op-ed columnist for Folha de S.Paulo, Brazil's biggest circulation newspaper, as well as for other media outlets in Brazil and around the world. He was also foreign affairs commentator for Jovem Pan, Brazil's leading radio network. Troyjo writes extensively on foreign affairs, global trade, rising powers, globalization, Brazil's political and economic prospects and Brazilian foreign policy. He served on the Advisory Board of numerous for profit as well as not-for-profit institutions. He is a career diplomat and was Press Secretary at the