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Fulbright Association
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Phone: (202) 347-5543
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Biography
of Fernando
Henrique Cardoso |
| Fernando Henrique Cardoso served two terms as president of the Federative
Republic of Brazil from January
1, 1995 to January 1, 2003, winning both elections with an absolute majority. As president of Brazil,
Dr. Cardoso strengthened political institutions, increased economic
stability and growth, and expanded educational opportunities for all
Brazilians while promoting human rights and development. During his tenure, high school enrollments increased by more than one
third, and the number of students entering college each year doubled. |
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| Dr.
Cardoso’s emphasis on improving health care in poor rural areas resulted
in a 25 percent decrease in infant mortality. The United Nations Development Program has recognized his work with
the inaugural Mahbub ul Haq Award for Outstanding Contribution to Human
Development. |
| Dr.
Cardoso currently chairs the Club of Madrid and the High Level Panel of
Eminent Persons on United Nations-Civil Society Relations and serves as
co-chairman of the Inter-American Dialogue and as coordinator of the working
group in charge of reviewing the process of Ibero-American Summits. He is also emeritus professor of political science at the
University of São Paulo. His main works in English include Charting a New Course: The
Politics of Globalization and Social Transformation (2001, M. Font, editor)
and Dependency and Development in
Latin America (with E. Faletto, 1979). Dr. Cardoso is a
co-author of The New Global Economy in the Information Age (1993) and has
contributed essays to many other books, including Toward a Just World Order
(1982) and The International Political Economy and the Developing Countries
(1995). |
| In
1986, Dr. Cardoso was selected as Fulbright Program 40th anniversary
distinguished fellow and lectured at Columbia University on democracy in Brazil. He has received honorary doctorates from universities in Chile,
France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Venezuela. Dr. Cardoso is also foreign
honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2000, he received the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation. |
| A
sociologist trained at the University of São Paulo, Dr. Cardoso emerged in the late 1960s as an influential intellectual,
analyzing large-scale social change, international development, dependency, democracy, and state reform. He became deeply involved in
Brazil’s struggle to overcome the authoritarian military regime in power from 1964 to 1985. In the late 1960s,
he was arrested and interrogated by military security, and his research
institute was bombed. To escape this persecution, he spent the 1970s and early 1980s teaching in the United States,
France, and Chile. He was elected senator in 1982
as a proponent of democratic reform and served as a founding member of the
Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB).Before his election as president, he served as minister of foreign
relations in 1992-93 and as minister of finance in 1993-94. |
| Dr. Cardoso was born in Rio de Janeiro
in 1931 and is married to Ruth Cardoso, a former Fulbright scholar at
Columbia University. |
| They have three children. |
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