Fernando Henrique Cardoso, president of Brazil from 1995 to 2002 and recipient of the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation, will speak on "Beyond the Global Financial Crisis: Politics, Economics and Culture" Wednesday, April 7, at 4:30 p.m. in Kennedy Hall's Call Auditorium.

Cardoso, the 2010 Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs fellow, emerged in the late 1960s as one of the most influential figures in the analysis of large-scale social change, international development, dependency and democracy. Cardoso was deeply involved in Brazil's struggle for democracy to overcome the authoritarian military regime between 1964 and 1985. Elected senator in 1982, he was a founding member of the Party of the Social Democracy; he served as minister of foreign relations in 1992-93 and of finance in 1993-94.

He is also recipient of the United Nations Development Programme's 2002 Mahbub ul Haq Award for Outstanding Contribution to Human Development and the 2003 J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding.

The Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellowship was established in 1984 to bring prominent international leaders to Cornell. The mission of the fellowship program is explicitly educational -- to foster a broadened world view among Cornell students by bringing to campus people who have distinguished themselves as international public figures.

The event is hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.