Marcos Troyjo is co-founder and co-director of the BRICLab at Columbia University, where he teaches international affairs. He is also director of the ITTI (Intelligent Tech & Trade Initiative), a multimedia project examining the impact of augmented intelligent and blockchains on global trade. 

He is an op-ed columnist for Folha de S. Paulo, Brazil´s biggest circulation newspaper, foreign affairs correspondent for Jovem Pan, Brazil’s leading radio network and regular commentator for global media outlets such as CNN en Español and Financial Times.

Professor Troyjo is managing partner of the Center for Business Diplomacy, a global advisory firm. An economist and political science he holds a PhD in international relations from the University of São Paulo with postdoctoral studies at Columbia. He is a Visiting Professor at the Russian Academy for National Economy and Public Administration (Ranepa) and a research scholar at CEAQ-Sorbonne.

He writes extensively on foreign affairs, international trade, rising powers, globalization, technology & innovation, and Brazil's political and economic prospects and Latin America's place in the global economy. 

Professor Troyjo authors books on economic development and global affairs, including Trading Nation: Power & Prosperity in the 21st Century (listed by Americas Quarterly as one of the hemisphere´s best books in 2007). His latest book, Deglobalization: Chronicle of a Changing World, appeared in 2016.