Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Advisory Board Member
President of the Fernando Henrique Cardoso Institute
 
Fernando Henrique Cardoso is the President of the Fernando Henrique Cardoso Institute. Cardoso served two terms as the President of the Federal Republic of Brazil. He was first inaugurated on January 1st, 1995 and re-elected by an absolute majority on October 4th, 1998. President Cardoso's term ended January 1st, 2003.

President Cardoso was elected to the Brazilian senate from the state of Sao Paulo in 1986 and two years later helped to found the Social Democratic Party. He later served from 1992 to 1993 as Foreign Minister.

He became Economy Minister in 1993 and was credited with successfully controlling inflation and turning the troubled Brazilian economy around.

He was elected president in 1994 and soon moved to reduce government involvement in the economy and to attract foreign investment to Brazil. President Cardoso was reelected in 1998.

A leading Latin American sociologist, President Cardoso was appointed to a five-year term as professor-at-large at the Thomas J.Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies at Brown University. He
will deliver lectures, participate in various symposia, interact with students in the classroom, and work with faculty in development studies, Latin American studies, Portuguese and Brazilian studies and other departments, institutes and centers.

He has been Visiting Professor at various academic centers in Europe and the United Sates, including the Collège de France, the University of Paris, University of Cambridge, University of California-Berkeley and Stanford University. Some of his books on sociology, political science and international relations are translated in to several languages (English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and Romanian, among others).