Harvard Club of Russia

Breakfast with HLS Professor Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Professor Unger is a philosopher, social theorist, and Brazilian politician. In 1976, at 29 years old, Unger became one of the youngest faculty members to receive tenure from the Harvard Law School and has since instructed many of the world elite, including Barack Obama, who took "Jurisprudence" and "Reinventing Democracy" with Unger.

He also served as the Minister of Strategic Affairs in the second Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva administration. Seeing the future in small
enterprises and advocating a rotating capital fund that would function like a government run venture capital fund, he pushed for a rapid expansion of credit to smaller producers and a decentralized network of technical support centers that would help broaden the middle class from below.