Tomás Amorim is the Program Officer at the Brazil Office of Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), serving as the faculty liaison. After two years coordinating Brazil-related activities at DRCLAS in Cambridge, Tomás moved to São Paulo in March of 2006, where he designed the new office. A Brazilian citizen, he is the former Director of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he was responsible for the development of working relationships with counterpart organizations in the Hemisphere. Previously he was Research Associate of the Latin America Studies Program and served as staff director for various initiatives, including the Independent Task Force on Brazil and a conference on reforms in Latin America. Prior to joining the CFR in 1999, Tomás worked in the Reference and Collection Development department of Firestone Library at Princeton University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a certificate in Latin American Studies.

Languages: Portuguese, Spanish