José Goldemberg, Eduardo Moacyr Krieger and José de Souza Martins are on the list of possible presidents of FAPESP

José Goldemberg, José de Souza Martins and Eduardo Moacyr Krieger

José Goldemberg and Eduardo Moacyr Krieger, both honorary professors of the IEA-USP, and José de Souza Martins, a frequent collaborator of the Institute, are on the list of three names that has been submitted to the São Paulo state governor Geraldo Alckmin in order to choose the new president of FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation).

The list was defined by the Foundation's Board on August 12. The new president will replace Celso Lafer, whose second term as president of FAPESP ends on September 7.

Goldemberg is a researcher and professor emeritus from the USP's Institute for Energy and Environment (IEE), and professor emeritus from the USP's Institute of Physics (IF). Since the establishment of the IEA-USP (during his term as president of USP), Goldemberg participates in activities related to environment, energy, sustainability and higher education. He was Secretary of Science and Technology, Secretary of the Environment and Minister of Education of the federal government, Secretary of the Environment of the State of São Paulo and president of the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science (SBPC).

Souza Martins is professor emeritus from the USP's Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Literatures, and Human Sciences (FFLCH), institution in which he has spent all his academic career as a sociologist. He has been a frequent contributor to the IEA's journal "Estudos Avançados". At the University of Cambridge he has been a visiting researcher at the Latin American Studies Center, besides of being holder of the Simón Bolivar Chair and a researcher at the Trinty College Hall. He also taught at the University of Florida and at the University of Lisbo's Institute of Social Sciences.

Krieger is deputy president of the Superior Council of FAPESP and professor emeritus from the USP's Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine (FMRP). At the IEA-USP, he participates in discussions on science and technology policy as well as in debates about higher education and academic research. Krieger has been president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC) and director of the Heart Institute's Hypertension Unit at the USP's Faculty of Medicine (FMUSP).