Kevin D. Schroeder is Managing Partner and co-founder of Portal Commerce & Logistics.  Kevin has more than a decade of experience living and working in Brazil and Latin America.  His areas of expertise include Brazilian fiscal policy and financial sector reform, privatization and public-private partnerships, and Brazilian transportation infrastructure investment and development. 

Kevin has worked in Latin America and Africa as a consultant and academic researcher conducting projects for clients and with competitively-awarded research funding from the Ford Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development, the Tereza Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, the Institute for African Alternatives (IFAA-London), and the University of Texas at Austin Department of Government. 

Kevin received his Bachelor of Science in Political Science from the University of Tampa, his Master’s degree in International Relations from Florida State University, holds a certificate of Latin American Studies from the Tereza Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and from 2002 to 2006 Kevin was a Ph.D candidate (ABD) in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin.  Kevin is also an adjunct professor of Political Science at Quinnipiac University and Southern Connecticut State University, where he teaches courses in Latin American politics and Inter-American affairs.

kds@portal-commerce.com