In partnership with the Brazilian Competitiveness Movement / Movimento Brasil Competitivo (MBC) and the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development / Agência Brasileira de Desenvolvimento Industrial (ABDI), the Council held a summit to evolve a strategic commitment to competitiveness policy and action in Brasília in July 2007. The United States and Brazil—the two largest economies, and two of the most populous countries in the Western Hemisphere with a diversity of industries and resources—have a strong incentive to work together to attract and assemble the best, most creative human capital.
This summit—led by Deere and Company CEO Robert W. Lane, Grupo Gerdau founder Jorge Gerdau and a delegation of CEOs, university presidents and public sector leaders—was a showcase to the unique bilateral relationship of the two nations, as well as to the importance of the U.S.-Brazil relationship in support of hemispheric competitiveness and prosperity.
