On August 31, 2013 Governor Geraldo Alckmin appointed three Trustees to FAPESP’s board for six-year terms. Eduardo Moacyr Krieger and José de Souza Martins were reappointed, while Pedro Luiz Barreiros Passos is filling the vacancy resulting from the end of Luiz Gonzaga de Mello Belluzzo’s term. Krieger is coordinator of the Translational Cardiology Program of the Heart Institute (InCor), and professor emeritus of the Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine, University of São Paulo (USP). He has served as president of the Inter-American Society of Hypertension, the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, the Brazilian Society of Physiology and the Federation of Societies for Experimental Biology.
Souza Martins is professor emeritus and retired full professor of sociology at the USP School of Philosophy, Letters, and the Humanities. At the University of Cambridge (England), he was a visiting researcher at the Center for Latin American Studies (1976), and in 1993-94 he was the Simón Bolivar Professor and a fellow of Trinity Hall. He was a visiting professor at the University of Florida in 1983, and the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon in 2000.
Passos is a member of the board of directors of Natura and co-founder. Since 2013, he has chaired the board of directors of Totvs, an IT company. With a bachelor’s degree in Production Engineering from USP, followed by a degree in business administration from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, he is president of the Institute for Industrial Development Research (Iedi) and the SOS Atlantic Forest Foundation. He is also on the board of trustees of the National Quality Foundation and the boards of the Endeavor Entrepreneur Institute, the Technological Research Institute, and the Dom Cabral Foundation.
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