Dr. Roberto Guimarães

Vice-Chair, Scientific Committee, IHDP, Brasil

Roberto Guimarães' Curriculum Vitae

Roberto Guimaraes is Chief of the Social Analysis and Policy Section of the UN Social Perspectives on Development Branch. He has been a key player in international summits and is well into the international development scene. He is author of close to 200 publications on political development and the formulation of social and environmental politics in Latin America, where he has worked for the UN Economic
Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and also for the Brazilian Government. One of his outstanding publications is 'The Ecopolitics of Development in the Third World' (Lynne Rienner Publ., 1991 and 1994). Professor Guimaraesis now at the School of Public and business Administration of the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janiero, and visiting professor at the Doctoral Program n Environment and Society of the University of Campinas in Sao Paulo.