Henrique Brandao Cavalcanti

President of the International Forum on Chemical Safety 2000-2003. Brazilian National Committee (Environment) of the International Chamber of Commerce ICC. “Advisor” of the Global Environmental Facility GEF. Foundation for Nature — LASPAU Program, Harvard University. Director of the Marine Stewardship Council — London. Oxford University Center for Environment, Ethics and Society — Commission for Sustainable Consumption.

Secretary General of the Ministries of Mines and Energy and of the Interior 1967-74. Chief of Staff of ECTROBRAS 1975. President of the Environmental Advisory Council. Vice President of the Commission on Metropolitan Regions and Urban Policy. Industrial Director and President of SIDERBRAS 1975-84. 13) Director of Caemi Mineracao e Metalurgia S.A. 1990-93. Minister of Environment and Legal Amazonia of Brazil 1994. Delegate of Brazil to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. Elected President 1995-96.

Professor of Energy Economics. National School of Engineering. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro UFRJ. 1960-65. Professor of Electrical System Operations at the PUC in Rio de Janeiro.

Member of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards; of the Brazilian Institute of Municipal Administration and Member of the Council; of the Brazilian Association of Metallurgy and Materials AABM; of the Brazilian Institute of Steel Industry IBS; of the International Iron and Steel Institute IISI; of the International Environmental Bureau — Director 1986-89 Geneva — Switzerland; of the Iwokrama International Center for the Conservation of Tropical Forests — Guyana.

Grand Cross of the Order of Rio Branco. Order of Merit of the State of Tocantins. Grand Officer of the Order of Naval Merit, Aeronautical Merit and Merit of the Brazilian Armed Forces. Order of May, Argentina. Order of Merit for Distinguished Services, Peru. Order of Merit, Brasilia. Order of the Aztec Eagle, Mexico. Gold Medal of the State of Minas Gerais. Guarapes Order of Merit of the State of Pernambuco. Santos Dumont Medal from the Ministry of Aeronautics. Medal of Indigenous Merit from the National Indian Foundation.

Civil Engineer, McGill University — Montreal, Canada 1951.

Nuclear Engineer, Pennsylvania State University — 1958.

Diplomas of specialization in Nuclear Engineering, at the International School of Nuclear Science and Engineering and the National Laboratory of Argonne, Illinois U.S.A.

Scholarship from the Government of France at the Schneider Group companies in Paris, Lyon, Grenoble, Le Creusot and Champagne Sur-Seine.