Roberto Simon

Former Public Policy Scholar

July 6, 2015 – August 31, 2015

Professional Affiliation

Lead Client Intelligence Group (CIG) UBS

Expert Bio

Roberto Simon is a Brazilian journalist and political risk analyst based in New York. He is the author of “Brazil against Democracy” (Cia das Letras, LOM).

Simon currently serves as the team lead of UBS’ Client Intelligence Group. Previously he served as a columnist for Folha de S. Paulo, as Senior Director at Americas Society/Council of the Americas (AS/COA), managing the think-tank's Anti-Corruption Working Group, and as Politics Editor of Americas Quarterly. He was also the lead Latin America analyst for FTI Consulting's Geopolitical Intelligence group.

Simon has been published and quoted by a variety of Latin American and international media, including Foreign Affairs, FT, Reuters and WSJ. He began his career working for almost a decade as an international correspondent with Brazil's O Estado de S. Paulo daily, where he covered events in countries such as Haiti, Honduras, Paraguay, Israel, West Bank and Gaza, Iran and Egypt. He has a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School and a Master’s in International Relations from the University of the State of São Paulo (UNESP).