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Ilona Szabó de Carvalho is the cofounder and executive director of the Igarapé Institute. Since its founding in 2011, the Institute has generated pioneering research, new technologies and policy on security, justice and development. It is today ranked as one of the leading think tanks in the Global South and works with governments, the private sector and civil society to co-design data-driven solutions to complex challenges.
Ilona has extensive experience leading global networks. Specifically, she oversees the Americas office of the Global Commission on Drug Policy. Between 2011 and 2016 she was the executive coordinator of the Global Commission on Drug Policy secretariat. She previously coordinated the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy. During her tenure she was responsible for helping shape global strategy with former presidents, supreme court justices, business and world leaders, including Richard Branson and the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
She earned a Master’s Degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Uppsala in Sweden, a specialist degree in International Development, from the Oslo University and a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations. She has joined several executive courses, such as in transformational leadership at the Said Business School at Oxford University and a Management Course on Disarmament, Demobilization & Reintegration (DDR) at the Swedish National Defense College, Stockholm.
She is especially committed to nurturing and leveraging networks to achieve positive transformation. Since 2015, she has been a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum and a Responsible Leader at the BMW Foundation. She has launched a number of expert networks including Think Free (Pense Livre) and Public Transformation. Ilona was also selected to join a group of civic entrepreneurs called the Brazilian Political Action for Sustainability Network (RAPS) and she is currently creating a political movement in Brazil called Agora! (Now!).
Ilona has experience working with international foundations and multilateral organizations. She served as an international jurist for the Bloomberg Mayors Challenge in Latin America and MacArthur´s Foundation $100 million dollar initiative – 100&Change in 2016. Since 2007 she has consulted with the OECD-DAC, UNDP, EU and several INGOs, conducting assessments across Latin America. She has also supported a range of local grassroots organizations in their organizational development in the past years.
As part of her work, Ilona is routinely involved in overseeing communications and outreach on behalf of the Igarapé Institute. She is a regular contributor to news outlets such as Foreign Affairs, the Huffington Post, New York Times, O Globo and GloboNews and was invited to TED in 2014 ad 2016 and Davos in 2016. She has also produced a short documentary film – Faces of Violence– which was featured at the UN General Assembly and in conferences and seminars around the world and was also the coscript writer and principle researcher for the award-winning documentary Breaking the Taboo, which has been viewed by hundreds of thousands of people.
Homicide rates are falling after years of gruesome statistics in a region that hosts 43 of the world's 50 most violent cities – though there's still a long way to go.
Pensa-se que uma simples alteração nas leis referentes ao álcool teve um impacto importante.
Los crímenes violentos en San Pablo se han reducido drásticamente. Esta puede ser la razón.
Latin America's largest city was once among the region's most violent. But the bustling metropolis of over 12 million Paulistanos has experienced a remarkable decline in homicide rates.
Los homicidios en América Latina aumentan en un momento en que los asesinatos disminuyen prácticamente en todo el resto del mundo. La buena noticia es que no son inevitables.
Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world. Prisons and police have done nothing to change that.
¿Qué debe hacerse para que las ciudades de América Latina sean más igualitarias y menos peligrosas?
What should be done to make Latin America's cities more equal and less dangerous?
Davos 2016: It is only by putting governments back in control that organized crime groups can be disempowered and associated corruption and violence reduced.
