n this edition of T International, we chose as cover the first interview of Mario Jorge Machado as ATP president. As might be expected for somebody like me, who has had the pleasure of contacting with Adalberto’s strong man for many years, the esteemed reader will find a set of excellent answers with many good ideas, and ambitious but well-defined goals.

As you can see, the new ATP president uses a number of interesting and even funny images to illustrate some of his answers. The one I liked the most says that it’s convenient if swimming teachers also know how to swim. Matching this image with the statement that his priority as ATP president is to help industry’s companies to be more competitive, it is easy to imagine that this new mandate will focus more on practice than on theory.

By combining well-known industrialists and entrepreneurs with other elements from a younger generation, but also with the factory workers, I want to say that in ATP’s new governing bodies there is no shortage of swimming teachers who can swim. Nothing more appropriate for the promised stormy waters.