Gabrielle Trebat, senior managing director at McLarty Associates: “Over the course of his first nine months in office, President Lula has consistently sought to raise Brazil’s profile on global issues. Brazil’s lobbying for reform of the U.N. Security Council including a permanent seat for countries like Brazil is a decades-long objective for Lula and is expected to be on the agenda during a meeting with Biden on the margins of U.N. General Assembly next week. Since 2005, Brazil has formed part of the G4 Resolution alongside Germany, India and Japan, advocating for expanding U.N. Security Council membership to 25 nations by adding six permanent members and four non-permanent members. Lula’s latest push for permanent membership also reflects Brazil’s broader ambitions of leveraging its position as the largest economy in Latin America to pursue greater global leadership. Lula has long argued that multilateral bodies such as the United Nations need to be more balanced and…”