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Paulo Gadelha, President of Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, took office in 2009, after being elected by the institution’s employees. Graduated in medicine at the Rio de Janeiro University, he holds a Master’s degree in Social Medicine from the same institution and a Doctor’s degree in Public Health from Fiocruz. Gadelha has developed his studies in the fields of medical assistance, history of diseases, dissemination and non-formal education in science and social history in science and health. He was responsible for the creation of Casa de Oswaldo Cruz and the Museum of Life. Gadelha chaired the 11th World Congress on Public Health and the 8th Brazilian Congress on Collective Health and represented Fiocruz in the process of institutionalization of the Drugs against Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) – an international research network to fight the lack of effective drugs for malaria, leishmaniasis and Chagas’ disease.

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Rubem Cesar Fernandes is an anthropologist and holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Warsaw (Poland) and a Ph.D. degree in History of Social Thought from Columbia University. Since returning from exile during the 80’s, he has combined scholar work with activism in NGOs, and devoted himself to research on anthropology of religion, civil society, public safety and human rights. He was the director of ISER (Institute for Studies of Religion) twice and currently coordinates the Violence, Public Security and Human Rights research area. Author of several titles in the fields of Anthropology, Sociology, Human Rights and Public Safety, Fernandes is the executive director of Viva Rio since its founding in 1993 and also coordinates the field work of that NGO in Haiti.

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Carlos Costa is a journalist, has five children and was born in Rocinha, where he lived until 2008. Costa is the director-general of the Rocinha Newspaper and President of the NGO Rocinha XXI. He works in the NGO Viva Rio since 1998, where he coordinated the area of Public Security and Human Rights and the Urban Conflict Mediation Project – which had a decisive role in the conflicts of Rocinha, Vigário Geral, Baixada and Complexo do Alemão. Between 2007 and 2008, Costa also integrated the team which coordinated and executed the “Resgate” Project, jointly with the Human Rights National Secretary. He currently takes part in the coordination teams of PROTEJO (a project to assist young people in social vulnerability in the communities of Jardim Catarina, Salgueiro and Maré) and PRONASCI/Justice Ministry.

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Carlos Mário da Silva Velloso was born in Entre Rios de Minas, MG. Velloso was Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice, President of the Electoral Supreme Court and President of the Federal Supreme Court. He teaches at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, at the University of Brasilia, at the Brasilia’s Federal School of Magistracy and at the Institute of Public Law (IDP). He is also honorary doctor by the University of Craiova, Romania, and by the University Center of Rio de Janeiro. Velloso integrates many cultural organizations, among which stand out the Brazilian Academy of Legal Letters and the Association Française des Constitutionnalistes of Paris. He is co-author of about thirty law books, in addition to several books published in his honor. He is married and has four children.

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Celina Carpi graduated as a civil engineer at the University of Rio de Janeiro, as a lawyer at the Candido Mendes University and also holds an MBA degree from the European Institute of Business Administration – INSEAD, France. Carpi is member of the Libra Group’s Administration Council, where she worked for many years. Ethos Institute’s advisor since its foundation, she is the President of the AKATU Institute’s Deliberative Council. Carpi also takes part in the Council of Social Responsibility at FIRJAN and SAI – Social Accountability International, which promotes the worker’s rights all over the world. Celina Carpi created the initiative “Rio Como Vamos” inspired by the program which promotes life quality in Bogotá.

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Celso Fernandes, married and father of three, was born in Ribeirão Preto, SP. He has academic formation in the areas of enginery, administration and marketing. Fernandes worked in many Brazilian and international companies such as IBM Brazil, where he worked for more than 20 years. Since 2006, he’s been involved with the Third Sector: Fernandes was the director of the Institutional Strategy and Development of the Informatics Democratization Committee (CDI) and Director-General of Casa Brasil (CBM Group). In February 2009, Celso Fernandes became the National Director of Visão Mundial Brasil, an organization which takes care of Brazilian youth’s welfare and development.

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Daiane dos Santos is a gymnast born in Porto Alegre, RS. She was initiated in the sport by the Curitiba Olympic Center and was the first Brazilian athlete to win the World Artistic Gymnastic Championship, in Anehein, CA, in 2003. She got the 5th place at the Athens Olympic Games (2004) and won twice the Gymnastic World Cup (in 2003-2004 and 2005-2006). She is also the first Brazilian gymnast to have two skills named by her (”Dos Santos” I and II). Beyond all that, Dos Santos has plans for the “Daiane dos Santos Institute”, created to encourage sport.

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Drauzio Varella is a cancerologist doctor, graduated at the University of São Paulo. Varella was one of the Course Objetivo founders, where he taught Chemistry for many years. As one of the pioneers in HIV treatment in Brazil, in 1986 he started radio campaigns to make AIDS prevention clear to population. He has starred many series about human body, first aids, pregnancy, tabagism treatment, familiar planning, transplants and many other issues, broadcasted by Globo Television. In 1989, he started investigations about HIV prevalence in penitentiary population of the Carandiru Prison. He presently does the same job in the Women Penitentiary of Sao Paulo. He directs in Rio Negro a project about Brazilian plants’ bioprospection and has also written many books, such as “Estação Carandiru”.

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Born in Rio de Janeiro, Ellen Gracie is Federal Supreme Court Minister since 2000. He graduated in Law and Social Sciences at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and attended post-graduate level in Social Anthropology at the same university. She was director-founder of the Law School of OAB (Order fo the Brazilian Lawyers) of Rio Grande do Sul and the Republic Prosecutor, in addition to chairing the Commission of Studies and Courses of the 4th Region Court – where he joined the Standing Committee of Judges of the Judicial Studies Center of the Federal Council of Justice. On April 27, 2006, was sworn in as President of the Supreme Court and the National Council of Justice. She is a member of the Advisory Board of Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) and the International Association of Women Judges (AWJ), jurist in residence at the Library of Congress of the United States and teaches Constitutional Law at the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos.

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Edmar Lisboa Bacha is member-founder and director of Casa das Graças’ Institute of Studies on Economic Policy and also Bank Itaú senior consultant. Between 1993 and 1994, Bacha took part in the government economic team, responsible for the Plan Real. He was the President of the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES), of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and of National Association of Investment Banks (ANBID), as well as professor at the Universities of Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, at Getúlio Vargas Foundation, at Columbia, Yale, Berkeley and at Stanford. In addition, Bacha was researcher in IPEA, Harvard and MIT and consultant of the Federal Reserve, the Bank of New York, the UN and the World Bank. He graduated in economics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and became Ph.D in economics by the University of Yale.

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Joaquim Falcão studied at the Rio de Janeiro’s Pontifical Catholic University Law School and also holds a Doctor’s degree from the University of Genève and a LLM degree from the Harvard Law School. Between 2005 and 2009, he was councilor at the National Council of Justice. Nowadays, Falcão is the director of Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School, as well as professor of Constitutional Law and Justice Reform, vice-president of the Commercial Association of Rio de Janeiro, director of the Administrative Law Magazine and vice-president of the Cultural Itaú Institute.

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João Roberto Marinho is the third son of the journalist Roberto Marinho. He started his career as journalist in O Globo, occupying several functions. Marinho was Director-General of Roberto Marinho Foundation, a philanthropic institution committed to cultural and educational projects. He is the current vice-president of the Administration Council and the Globo Organizations, responsible for the company’s strategic directions, institutional relations and editorial orientation. Marinho is also the vice-president of the National Association of Newspapers and of the Brazilian Association of Radio and Television. He is married and has three children.

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Jorge Hilário Gouvêa Vieira graduated as a lawyer at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, where he was Professor of Commercial Law and Head of the Department of Legal Sciences. He works in the Office of Advocacy since 1961. He was Director and Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil (CVM), President of the Reinsurance Institute of Brazil, Secretary of Treasury of the State of Rio de Janeiro and President of the Bank of Rio de Janeiro (BANERJ). In the private sector, Hilário was a member of the Board of several companies in the insurance industry, petroleum, mining, railways, air transport and financial institutions. He is specialized in Corporate Law, Tax Law and Law of Insurance and Capital Market.

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Jorge da Silva grew up in Complexo do Alemão slum and became a Military Police officer when he was 17 years old. He graduated in Law and in Letters, holding Master’s degrees in Political Science and in English Language, Ph.D degree in Social Science and post-Doctor’s degree from the University of Buenos Aires. Besides being professor at the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Da Silva coordinates studies and researches about Public Order, Police and Human Rights and is an invited researcher at the Studies Center of the Fluminense Federal University (UFF). In his public life, besides being sub-secretary of the State of Rio de Janeiro and Chief of Staff of the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro, he coordinated the sectors of Security, Justice, Civil Defense and Citizenship of the state’s government, president of the Public Security Institute, Corregidor of Military and Civil Polices and of the Firefighter Department and, after that, state’s Secretary of Human Rights. He has six books published.

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José Murilo de Carvalho is a historian, researcher and teacher, and since 2004 member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He coordinated the Post-Graduate Program in Social History of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Carvalho is a member of the PEN Club of Brazil, an honorary member of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and History, the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science and the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. Among the several awards received throughout life, there are the Jabuti Award – from the Brazilian Book Chamber, for the book “A Formação das Almas” in 1991 – the Medal of Rui Barbosa, in 2003, the Casa De Las Americas Prize – to the book “Cidadania no Brasil: um longo caminho”, in 2004 – and the Admiral Álvaro Prize for Science and Technology from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) in 2009.

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Lília Cabral Bertolli was born in São Paulo, SP. She studied Fine Art and Dramatic Arts at the University of São Paulo, becoming a professional in 1980. Cabral started her career taking part at the play Feliz Ano Velho, of Marcelo Rubens Paiva, and began her work in television in 1981. Cabral has been in 22 soap operas, four miniseries and more than ten special participations in television programs. In addiction, she’s already received more than ten prizes for her work in television and theater. In 2007, Cabral was nominated to the International Emmy Awards, in NY, as best actress for her role in Páginas da Vida, Manuel Carlos’ soap opera.

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Luiz Alberto Gomez de Souza is a lawyer, graduated at the Catholic University of Porto Alegre, Master in Political Science from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences and PhD in Sociology from the University of Paris. He is employee of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, head of the Office for Latin America and the Caribbean Development Department of FAO in Rome, an adviser to social and religious movements and professor of sociology and politics at University of Rio de Janeiro. De Souza has more than one hundred articles published in various countries on education, religion, political, human rights and youth. He was director of the Center for Religious Statistics and Social Research and now directs the Program for Advanced Studies in Science and Religion at Candido Mendes University.

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Professor and researcher at the Department of Theology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer holds a Ph.D degree in Systematic Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome. She is currently dean of the Center for Theology and Human Sciences at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). For ten years he directed the Loyola Center for Faith and Culture, a complementary unit of theVice-Dean Academic PUC-Rio. She is author and editor of several books, the most recent Sins (ed.), Virtue (ed.), Violence and Religion, The Ten Commandments, all released by the Publisher PUC-Rio/Edition Loyola. The writer has several works translated into other languages, edited abroad.

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Marcos Vilaça is a lawyer, journalist, teacher, essayist and poet born in Nazare da Mata, Pernambuco. Member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 1985, chaired the ABL in the biennium 2006/2007. He joined the teaching profession in 1958, when he was professor of history of Brazil, in the Gymnasium of Limoeiro. He is Professor of Public International Law and Administrative Law at the Federal University of Pernambuco. He took courses at Harvard University and was Minister of the Court of Audit, of which he was president in 1995. It was also a board member of the Latin American and Caribbean of Supreme Audit Institutions and Vice-President of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions – INTOSAL.

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Congressman Paulo Teixeira is a lawyer by the Law School of the University of Sao Paulo and Master in Constitutional Law. He was Sao Paulo’s city councilman, state deputy, sub-mayor of São Miguel Paulista and Secretary of Housing of the state capital. He is the author of the law, in the 90’s, that authorized the Sao Paulo government to distribute needles and syringes for injecting drug users to reduce the transmission of the AIDS virus, and because of this initiative, participating in national and international conferences on drugs, AIDS and policies of harm reduction. The deputy believes that the current policy of drug war stigmatizes casual users, overflowing prisons with very dangerous people, not reduce the consumption of these substances and not fight against big criminals that, for him, cause more deaths than the drugs themselves.

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Pedro Moreira Salles graduated “magna cum laude” in Economics and History from the University of California. He attended the Master’s program in International Relations from Yale University and the Owners / President Management Program at Harvard University. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of Commercial Bank Itau Unibanco SA, Brazil’s Chief Warrant Goods Administration and Company Ltda. and member of the Group of Fifty – Latin American Council maintained by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Inter-American Dialogue in Washington DC. He is a member also of the Board of Insper and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Foundation OSESP.

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Acelino Popó Freitas is a boxer born in Salvador, Bahia. He began training at age 14. In 1995 he began his professional career by winning the silver medal at the Pan American Games in Mar del Plata. It holds several titles as a boxer, among which stand out the World Championship for the World Boxing Organization (WBO) and World Champion for the World Boxing Association (WBA) in Featherweight, and two by the WBO world champion in Lightweight category. In parallel, Popo develops social and sports projects such as the Boxing Brazil – a company that seeks to give visibility to the sport – and the Institute Acelino Popo Freitas (LAPI), which offers workshops to youth boxing community in his hometown.

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Regina Miki was born in Mairiporã, São Paulo. She graduated in Law from the United Metropolitan Colleges, specializing yourself in Constitutional Law by the Superior Constitutional Law School, and in Public Safety, by the Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul. Miki was general counsel of the House of Councilors and advises the Secretary of Legal Affairs of the city of Diadema, São Paulo. In 2002, she became Secretary of Social Defense of the city – where she coordinated the planning and execution of public policies for the Public Security until 2009. Since then she works as special advisor to the Minister of Justice Tarso Genro, and was general coordinator of the 1st National Conference on Public Security (CONSEG) in the year 2009.

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Regina Novaes is graduated in Social Sciences, Master in Social Anthropology by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the University of Sao Paulo. Was a Professor of the Graduate Program in Sociology and Anthropology of the IFCS, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and publisher of the journal Religion and Society. Novaes was National Secretary for Youth – Minister and President of the National Youth Council. Currently, as a researcher at the National Research Council, she continues developing the Project Youth, Identity and Cultural Expressions. The Consultant of IBASE (Brazilian Institute of Socio-Economics), which coordinates the South American Youth Research and also acts as senior advisor Report on Youth in the Mercosur, together with the UNDP / United Nations. She published several books and articles in specialized journals.

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Roberto Lent has a degree in medicine from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, master’s and Doctor’s degree in Biological Sciences (Biophysics) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and post-doctorate by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is full professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, the Scientific-Technical Council of Capes – Basic Education and the National Council of SBPC, and is associate director of the Institute of “Ciência Hoje”. Lent heads the Laboratory of Neuroplasticity of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences. He also works in morphology, with emphasis on Neuroembriologia, and science propagation for adults and children, with published books for both, and writes regularly for the magazine “Ciências Hoje” On Line and other media vehicles.

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Chief executive of “Rio Como Vamos”, Rosiska Darcy de Oliveira is a writer and journalist. PhD in Education from the University of Geneva, where she taught for 10 years, Darcy founded and directs the Institute of Cultural Action. In the government of Rio de Janeiro, she was a special advisor for Professor Darcy Ribeiro to the area of education. In the Federal Government chaired the National Council of Women’s Rights and represented Brazil at the Inter-American Commission of Women of the OAS. She led the Brazilian delegation to the World Conference on Women in Beijing, and served on the Advisory Council on Women and Development of the IDB. She is a member of the World Panel on Democracy and the World Panel on Sustainable Development of UNESCO. In addition of being author of several books, she contributes regularly to the newspapers O Globo and Estado de Sao Paulo. She chairs the Center for Women’s Leadership and is a full member of the PEN Club of Brazil. Darcy received, among many awards and decorations, the Rio Branco Medal for services to Brazil and abroad and the Personality Citizenship UNESCO 2006.

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Degree in Psychology from the Catholic University of Sao Paulo and specialized in depth psychology, she founded the Ayrton Senna Institute in 1994, which since then works in order to develop the potential of new generations. Viviane is a member of the Council of the President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, of the Advisory Boards of Febraban and Citibank Brazil, of the Board of Education of CNI and FIESP, of the Council of the Institutes of Coca-Cola, Energias do Brazil, ADVB and “Todos pela Educação” and of the Committees of social guidance and investment of the banks Itaú and Unibanco. Senna was named one of the Leaders for the New Millennium (CNN/Time Magazine) and is the only Brazilian member of the group “Adult Friends of the Award of the World’s Children.”

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Born in Além Paraíba, in the state of Minas Gerais, Zuenir Ventura has been a journalist and university professor for almost 40 years. He was editor of “Caderno B” and creator of the supplement “Ideas”, both in the “Jornal do Brasil”, besides being one of the founders of ESDI – School of Industrial Design. He worked as a reporter and editor in various newspapers and magazines. It won the Esso Award for Reporting and the Wladimir Herzog Award of Journalism in 1989. He is the author of best-sellers in 1968, “The year that didn’t ended” and “Split City”. He currently writes for the newspaper O Globo and the magazine Época.