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Introduction of Heitor GURGULINO DE SOUZA
Heitor GURGULINO DE SOUZA
Sunday, 4 May 2003 17:40:28 +0200
Heitor Gurgulino de Souza, Brazilian, has been Rector of the United Nations University (UNU) from 1987 to 1997. After leaving UNU in 1997, Professor Gurgulino de Souza was named Special Advisor to the Director-General of UNESCO, a position he held until 1999. He was elected Vice-President of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) for the terms 1999/02 and 2002/05.
Professor Gurgulino de Souza received his degree in physics from Mackenzie University in Sao Paulo, and after he has held the chair of Professor of Science at the State University of Sao Paulo. During the 1960s, he joined the scientific department of the Pan American Union at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. During his seven years there, helped to organize several Latin American programmes for scientific and technological development, and to promote research and training activities across the continent.
During the 1970s, he has been successively Rector of the Federal University of the Sao Paulo State, Director of the Department of University Affairs of the Brazilian Ministry of Education and Culture; Director of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development of Brazil; and from 1980 to 1982, he served as Vice-President of the Federal Council of Education of Brazil, of which he had been made a member by presidential appointment.
Professor Gurgulino de Souza is the author of a large number of articles in the fields of physics, the application of science and technology to development, higher education, university administration and United Nations related issues.
Professor Gurgulino de Souza was married in 1960 to Lilian Maria Quilici and they have two sons: Carlos Eduardo and Gustavo Alberto.
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