Bruna Santos

Inter-American Dialogue

Bruna Santos is a geopolitical strategist and director of the Brazil Program at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, D.C. Her work focuses on how U.S.–China competition is reshaping trade, technology, and the choices available to countries caught between the two powers.

Santos has worked across China, Brazil, and the United States. From 2010 to 2013, she was based in Beijing, where she worked at Chinatex Grains & Oils and co-founded Radar China, a communications firm. In Brasília, she served as vice president and director of innovation at Enap, Brazil’s national school of public administration. Before joining the Inter-American Dialogue and founding the Brazil Program, she led the Brazil Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington.

She is an Eisenhower Fellow and has taught as an adjunct professor in Columbia University’s EMPA Global program. Apolitical and the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Agile Governance honored her as one of the fifty most influential leaders championing innovation in policymaking.

Santos holds a master’s in public administration from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.