BRAZILIAN MINISTERS OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, AND ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE WILL ATTEND THE OPENING OF CLUB DE MADRID’S ANNUAL POLICY DIALOGUE 2023

Club de Madrid, the world’s largest forum of democratic former Heads of State and Government, will be holding its Annual Policy Dialogue 2023 “Rethinking Social Development for People and Planet” (APD23) next Monday and Tuesday 13-14 November at the Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mauro Vieira, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva, and Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Sonia Guajajara, have confirmed their participation in the opening session. As you will see in the attached programme we have invited President Lula whom we hope will also be attending the opening.

This is the first time we celebrate our Policy Dialogue time in the global south and in Brazil no less, in support, among other processes, of its G20 Presidency. Club de Madrid is honoured to have the support of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs amongst others, and we would like to offer you this platform for possible collaborations in the field of communication, particularly coverage and face-to-face interviews with participating Club de Madrid Members and other Policy Dialogue participants here and attached. Please note this list will be regularly updated in the run up to the activity.

From our organisation we are at your disposal to work together on quality content, opinion articles from our Members and participants, analysis, reports, or any other format you consider. Please find attached for more details the executive summary, of the initiative as well as the programme to date.

Invitations to media for coverage of the opening and closing sessions will be sent out separately in the days prior to the event. We have enclosed a Media Kit to facilitate press communications and digital communication actions. Moreover, we include some Social Media Assets (FB, LK, IG, X) for social media, as well as suggested posts.

Our Annual Dialogues are our most relevant activity of the year where we bring together approximately 100 participants, among them 20-30 Club de Madrid Members –all of them democratically elected former Presidents or Prime Ministers– and representatives from different sectors (governmental, multilateral, academic, business and civil society) to discuss priority issues on the international agenda in depth and identify recommendations that our Members then take forward to current leaders through high level advocacy geared towards impact.

Likewise, following Brasilia we will be flying –with our President, Danilo Türk and our Member Jorge Fernando Quiroga–, to Sao Paulo (16th November) and Rio de Janeiro (17th November) where we are also open to scheduling interviews if of interest