The Brazilian Report and the Brazil Office Alliance go live on election night, Sunday, Oct. 4, with a panel of leading experts on Brazilian politics.
On Oct. 4, The Brazilian Report and the Brazil Office Alliance have joined forces for a live Election Night broadcast. Polls closed across Brazil at 5 p.m. Brasília time, and we went live the moment they did.
What we have covered
Live results as they came in
The campaign, Congress and the markets
Voters and the information war
Democracy, the courts and Washington
Runoff or not? What comes next
📅 Save the date: add our Oct. 25 runoff broadcast to your calendar
Our guests
Thiago Vidal is director of political analysis at Prospectiva, a public-affairs consultancy, where he is based in Brasília. His work focuses on Brazilian politics and its implications for businesses and investors.
Bruna Santos is director of the Brazil Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. Her work focuses on Brazilian politics, democracy and US-Brazil relations.
Fábio de Sá e Silva is president of the Brazilian Studies Association and an associate professor of international studies at the University of Oklahoma. His research focuses on law, lawyers, democracy and democratic backsliding, particularly in Brazil.
Mariana Borges is a lecturer in politics at the University of Southampton and director of its Centre for Political Ethnography. Her research focuses on political behavior in Brazil, particularly among lower-income voters, as well as misinformation and electoral politics.
David Nemer is an associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and an ethnographer of technology. His research examines technology, inequality and misinformation, with extensive fieldwork in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America.
Beatriz Rey is a political scientist and researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon. Her research focuses on legislative politics, political institutions and policymaking in Brazil and Latin America.
Guilherme Casarões is a political scientist and professor at Florida International University. His research focuses on Brazilian foreign policy, international relations and the politics of the far right.
Felipe Bailez is the CEO of Palver, a technology company that uses AI to monitor social media and worked with Brazil's Superior Electoral Court to counter disinformation in the 2022 elections. He holds an economics degree from the University of São Paulo.
Your hosts
Gustavo Ribeiro is an award-winning journalist and co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Brazilian Report. He holds a master's degree in political science and Latin American studies from Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris. When HBO's John Oliver explained Brazil's election to his audience, he put one of our articles on screen and used an interview Gustavo gave to Vox.
James N. Green is a historian and professor emeritus of modern Latin American history and Portuguese and Brazilian studies at Brown University. His work focuses on modern Brazil, including the military dictatorship and the history of U.S.-Brazil relations.
Background reading
📅 Save the date: add our Oct. 25 runoff broadcast to your calendar
👉 Reminder: You can leave questions for our experts in advance using the comment box at the bottom of this page. You can also use it to interact during the live broadcast.
