Northeastern University to Host Brazilian Undergraduate Student Conference in October 2019
April 30, 2019
By Courtney Woodman
Congratulations to Daniel Sneyers, Eric Halpern, and the Northeastern University chapter of the Brazilian Student Association (BRASA) whose winning bid will allow Northeastern to host this year’s Brazilian Undergraduate Student Conference (BRAZUSC)!
This initiative at Northeastern was led by two Northeastern Students, Daniel Sneyers and Eric Halpern. “We spent the Fall semester preparing a strong bid to the National BRASA organization, facing off in a bidding process against UC Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford, and other universities for the opportunity to host the conference,” said Sneyers.
In addition to the $5,000 pledge from the Global Experience Office the NU chapter of BRASA has gathered support from across the university, making this a true inter-disciplinary venture.
Additional support came from President Aoun, Student Affairs, the Center for Emerging Markets, the Office of Global Services, the D’Amore McKim School of Business, and Global Employer Relations.
In previous years, the conference has been hosted by Harvard, the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, and Emory University.
With over 3,500 members in over 70 universities across the globe, BRASA is the largest network of Brazilian students living outside of Brazil.
BRASA is a non-profit organization whose ambition is “to be the reference for Brazilians that study, have studied, or seek to study abroad,” according to the organization’s website. “We aim to develop leaders, entrepreneurs, and creators of change in both the public and private sector.”
Their mission states “we hope to empower the next generation of leaders for a better Brazil –a dream shared by every member of BRASA…at the core of our values, BRASA holds proactivity, excellence, meritocracy, and commitment to Brazil.”
This year’s conference will be held October 11th-12th, 2019 on Northeastern’s Boston campus. Among the confirmed speakers are Roberto Sallouti, CEO of BTG Pactual, and Nicola Calicchio, President of McKinsey & Company Latin America and Chairman of the McKinsey Global Client Council.
For more information and conference updates, visit the BRAZUSC website or follow BRASA on Instagram or Facebook. Unfortunately, the website is only available in Portuguese at the moment but BRASA is working on an English translate version.