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José Miguel
Insulza
José Miguel Insulza was elected OAS Secretary General
on May 2, 2005, and took office on May 26 of that year.
The Chilean politician has an accomplished record of public
service. At the beginning of his five-year term as Secretary
General, he pledged to strengthen the Organization’s
“political relevance and its capacity for action.”
A lawyer by profession—he has a law degree from
the University of Chile, did postgraduate studies at the
Latin American Social Sciences Faculty (FLACSO) and has
a master’s in political science from the University
of Michigan—Insulza began his career in academia.
Until 1973, he was Professor of Political Theory at the
University of Chile and of Political Science at Chile’s
Catholic University. He also served, until that year, as
Political Advisor to the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and Director of the Diplomatic Academy of Chile.
Following the coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet
into power, Insulza went into exile for 15 years, first
in Rome (1974-1980) and after that in Mexico (1981-1988).
In Mexico City, he was a researcher and then Director of
the United States Studies Institute in the Center for Economic
Research and Teaching. He also taught at Mexico’s
National Autonomous University, the Ibero-American University
and the Diplomatic Studies Institute, and was the author
of numerous publications.
In 1988, after Chileans voted against Pinochet’s
continued rule in a plebiscite, Insulza returned to his
home country and helped to lead a political movement toward
democratic elections in 1990. A member of Chile’s
Socialist Party—part of a moderate coalition of democratic
parties—Insulza has held a number of high-level government
posts. Under the presidency of Patricio Aylwin, Insulza
served as Chilean Ambassador for International Cooperation,
Director of Multilateral Economic Affairs at the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, and Vice President of the International
Cooperation Agency.
In March 1994, under the administration of President Eduardo
Frei, Insulza became Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs
and in September of that year was appointed Minister of
Foreign Affairs. In 1999, he became Minister Secretary General
of the Presidency, and the following year he became President
Ricardo Lagos’s Minister of the Interior and Vice
President of the Republic. When he left that post in May
2005, he had served as a government minister for more than
a decade, the longest continuous tenure for a minister in
Chilean history.
Born on June 2, 1943, Insulza is married to Georgina Núñez
Reyes and has three children: Francisca, Javier and Daniel
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Luiz
Carlos Trabuco
For 38 years Luiz Carlos Trabuco Cappi has been in Bradesco
Group. Vice-president of Bradesco S.A. and president of
the insurance division since march 2003. He is member of
the National Council of Private Insurance Companies (Fenaseg),
president of the National Federation for Supplementary Health
(Fenasaúde) and vice-president of the Institute ot
Supplementary Health. He has also been president of the
Bradesco Vida e Previdencia S.A, president of the National
Commission of Financial Marketing of Febraban (Brazilian
Federation of Banks) and member of the International Association
for International Studies, in Geneve.
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Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928 in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. His undergraduate and graduate years were
spent at the University of Pennsylvania where he received
his PhD in linguistics in 1955. Chomsky joined the staff
of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1955 and
in 1961 was appointed full professor in the Department of
Modern Languages and Linguistics (now the Department of
Linguistics and Philosophy.) From 1966 to 1976 he held the
Ferrari P. Ward Professorship of Modern Languages and Linguistics.
In 1976 he was appointed Institute Professor.
Professor Chomsky is Chomsky is credited with the creation
of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one
of the most significant contributions to the field of linguistics
made in the 20th century.
Prof. Chomsky has written and lectured widely on linguistics,
philosophy, intellectual history, contemporary issues, international
affairs and U.S. foreign policy.
According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in
1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any
other living scholar during the 1980–1992 time period,
and was the eighth-most cited scholar in any time period.
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Dr.
Beatriz Nofal
Dr. Beatriz. Nofal is, since October 2006, Head of Argentina’s
National Investment Promotion Agency, with rank of Secretary
of State. The mission of this newly created Agency is to
attract foreign direct investment and to promote domestic
investment growth.
Dr. Nofal received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University
in 1983 with specialization in development economics and
planning. She received postgraduate diplomas in development
planning from the École des Hautes Études
en Sciences Sociales, University of Paris, France (1977)
and the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands
(1976). Presently, Dr. Nofal is considered to be one of
the main experts on Mercosur, trade and development issues.
While in the U.S.A., she was an assistant professor at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) and
at Johns Hopkins University, as well as a consultant for
the World Bank. She was also Visiting Professor at the
University of Toronto in 2004. From August 2005, she is
appointed Professor in the Applied Economics Masters and
Doctoral Program at the Catholic University of Argentina.
Dr. Nofal, was Undersecretary of Industry and Trade in
the Ministry of Economy of Argentina during 1986-1988.
She had a main role in the opening of the economy and
in the formulation and negotiation of the Economic Integration
Program between Brazil and Argentina (including the first
Sectoral Automotive Free Trade Agreement), that constituted
the founding pillar of MERCOSUR and in the opening of
the Argentine economy.
Dr Nofal was, since December 1999 until February 2002,
Member of the House of Representatives in Argentina. She
is the founding partner of Eco-Axis S.A., an economic
consulting firm specialized in MERCOSUR and international
trade. She has been the President of the co. during 1991-
1999 and she has been appointed again in the same position
since March 2002. Dr. Nofal also became the editor of
a quarterly publication called "MERCOSUR JOURNAL"
during 1995-2000.
Since 1991, Dr. Nofal has been an external consultant
to the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank.
From May 1999 up to December 2000, she also was Managing
Director of Arthur D. Little in Argentina. Dr. Nofal has
authored several publications (including books) in Argentina,
Brazil, and USA.
Among the international honors awarded, Dr. Nofal received
in 1989, from the Republic of Brazil a Decoration of the
Order of Rio Branco with the rank of "Knight Commander"
(Presidential Decree, April 14/89). These honors were
granted by Brazil "in recognition of her excellent
performance in the Argentine-Brazilian Integration Program".
In 1999 she was also granted the Annual Award of Brazil´s
Investors Group for her academic and institutional contribution
to the consolidation of MERCOSUR.
In April 2003 she received from the Republic of Chile
a Decoration of the Great Order of Merit
in recognition for her contribution to the bilateral relations
and to economic development. Dr. Nofal is also a member
of the Inter-American Dialogue and a counselor of the
Centro Argentino para las Relaciones Internacionales (CARI).
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Sergio
Cabral
Sérgio Cabral de Oliveira Santos Filho was born
in 1963 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Majored in Journalism,
his political career was initiated at the age of 24, as
Director of Operations of TurisRio (the governmental tourism
company of the State of Rio de Janeiro). Three years later,
in 1990, he was elected State Representative on his first
mandate.
In 1994, Sérgio Cabral was reelected for the
second mandate and became the President of the State
Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro (ALERJ). In 1998,
he had 380.000 votes during the campaign for his third
legislature, the highest number of votes a State Representative
ever received in Brazil, and remained President of ALERJ
for the following four years.
Sérgio Cabral was elected Senator in 2002 and,
after four years at the Federal Senate, he was elected
Governor of the State of Rio de Janeiro, with more than
5 million votes in the second turn of the elections
held in 2006. Mr. Cabral took office on January 1st
2007 and the administration will last until the end
of 2010. Sérgio Cabral is married and is the
father of five children.
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Eduardo
Braga
Carlos Eduardo de Souza Braga was born in Belém,
at Para State, in December 6th 1960. Is married with Sandra
Backsmann Braga e have three daughters, Brenda, Bruna e
Bianca. Is an businessman and an electric engineer graduated
by Amazonas University.
His political career started at age 21 as a councilor
of Manaus, the Amazonas state capital. An strong and present
acting gave to him an expressive voting to become an state
representative in 1986. At the state assembly had also an
strong and present acting and was the reporter of the Amazon
Constitution. In 1990 Eduardo Braga was elected an federal
representative, with the biggest voting of his legendary.
Was elected vice-mayor of Manaus in 1992 and in 1994 became
mayor of Manaus. With an enterprising job made in health,
education and residence changed the Amazon capital. In 1996
Braga left the town hall with 98% approved by the population,
the largest rate of the Brazil and Amazonas history.
In 2002 was elected with majority in the first roud to
becama a governor of Amazonas State. Is the creator of revolutionary
programs, as Green Free Zone that have developed the state
inland, and Prosamim the responsible for the biggest urban
transformation of the capital in the last 50 years.
In 2006 was reelected in the fist round with 50,63% of
the valid votes. Is the author of the State Law on Climatic
Change, the first law on this theme in Brazil. With such
a law, the State of Amazonas gives its contribution towards
avoiding the forest to go up in smoke and end up contributing
towards the planet's climate change. Is the national coordinator
of the Social Environment of PMDB, the biggest party of
Brazil.
Is the creator of the "Bolsa Floresta" Program,
a State of Amazonas Government Program aimed at acknowledging,
valuing and compensating the State traditional and indigenous
populations – the guardians of the forest –
for their role in the conservation of the forests, rivers,
lakes, and streams.
Is the creator os the Sustainable Amazonas Foundation, the
main responsible for attracting partners to the State Fund
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