Cristovam Buarque

Who is Cristovam Buarque?

div id=article-1002 class=article Cristovam Ricardo Cavalcanti Buarque (Recife, February 20, 1944) is a Brazil politician and university professor, member of Democratic Labour Party (PDT). He is married and has two children.Graduated in mechanical engineering from the Federal University of Pernambuco (1966). At that time he engaged in student politics becoming a militant of the Ao Popular, a group of the Leftist Progressive Church. After the 1964 coup, he was persecuted and took exile in France, where he earned a PhD in economics from Sorbonne (Paris), in 1973. He worked at Inter-American Bank of Development (IDB) in Ecuador, Honduras and the United States from 1973 to 1979. He was the first elected rector, by direct vote, of the University of Brasilia in the wake of the military regime, governor of Distrito Federal, Minister of Education and currently senator, elected in a historic landslide. Author of ten books with several published articles. He worked as a consultant for several national and international... a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=1444349full article at wikipedia/a /divCristovam BuarquePDTDFLegislatura inicial:52 Legislatura final:53Ano inicial: 2003 Ano final: 2011cristovam@senador.gov.brhttp://www.senado.gov.br/sf/senadores/senadores_institucional.asp?leg=aamp;codparl=3398http://www.senado.gov.br/web/senador/cristovambuarque/default.htm