Education:



1970 - Graduated at the Veterinarian Medicine School, Federal

University of the State of Bahia, Brazil





PROFESSIONAL CAREER:



Since 1995, Coordinator of the Agricultural Health Project,

Interamerican Institute of Cooperation on Agriculture / IICA



This Project foresees the restructure and modernization of the

Agricultural Defense System and its economical integration at

the South Common Market - MERCOSUL - joined by Argentina,

Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile and Brazil.



During 25 years, carried out duties as a Veterinarian at the

Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture in the following positions:

National Agricultural Defense Secretary, Director-General of the

Animal Production Dept., Advisor to the Minister of State,

Member of the Foot and Mouth Disease Combat Executive Group (

Esp?rito Santo State) and Specialist for the same purpose in the

State of Bahia, Finance Manager of the Projects linked to the

Ministry of Agriculture, International Matters Advisor at the Co-

operativism Dept.





TEACHING EXPERIENCE



-	Selected as a lecturer for the Department of Preventive

Veterinary Medicine, Federal University of the State of Bahia,

1989



-	Over the years many lectures were presented to different level

of professionals, in Brazil and abroad



-	IICA representant in the Agriculture Commission for the

structure of the School of Veterinarian Medicine, University of

Brasilia, Brazil





PROFESSIONAL ENTITIES



1987/1995 - Vice President of the WVA (elected in Canada)



1997 - present Executive Vice President (elected in France)



1990/1992 - Vice President of the Panamerican Veterinary

Sciences Association (elected in Cuba)



1984/1987 - President of the Veterinary Brazilian Society



1989 - Elected President of the Brazilian Committee of the World

Veterinary Association



1979/1990 - Secretary-General and Vice President of the Federal

Council of Veterinary Medicine



Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Veterinary Sciences





DECORATIONS AND HONORS



Gran Cross of the Brazilian Veterinary Order of Merit, 1987



Member of Honor of the Cuban Veterinarian Scientific Council,

1988



Florida Veterinary Medical Association - Member of Honor of the

International Committee for the Americas, 1989



Member of Honor of the Paraguayn National Congress of Veterinary

Medicine, 1990



Elected the Iberian American Veterinarian of the Fifth Centenary

Year of the Discovery, University of Salamanca, 1992 Silver

Medal of the Argentinian Veterinary Society, 1996





SPECIALIZATION COURSES



1976 - Animal Health Planning - Pan American Zoonosis Center,

Buenos Aires, Argentina



1977/78 - Planning and Organizational Development, ODA

INTERNATIONAL INC. California, USA



1985 - Strategic and Politics, Armed Forces High Level Studies ,

the Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Thesis presented: "Development of the

Brazilian Northeast and the National Conjuncture"



1994 - Human Relations, Dale Carnegie Course, Bras?lia, Brazil



1996 - International Agricultural Trade, Latin American and

Caribeean University, Bras?lia, Brazil





CONGRESSES





1984 - President of the XIX Brazilian Congress of Veterinary

Medicine, Bel?m, Brazil



1986 - President of the XX Brazilian Congress of Veterinary

Medicine, Cuiab?, Brazil



1990 - President of the Organization Commission of the XXIV

Veterinary Worl Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil



Participation in the following Organization Committees:



- Veterinary Sciences World Congress

- International Veterinary Congress on Portuguese Language

- Pan American Milk Congress

- Latin American Veterinary Sciences Congress

- International Zoonosis Congress

- Latin American Congress on Animal Production

- International Congress on Primate's Studies





PUBLICATIONS



 - The Northeast Project and the Support to the Micro Rural

 Producer, 1985



- Co-editor of the Selected Proceedings - XXIV World Veterinary

Congress, 1991



- The Implications and Subregional Integration in the Production

of Bovine Meat and Milk in the MERCOSUL Countries.



- Several articles in speciliazed Brazilian and Foreign Magazines





CONFERENCES



Over one hundred technical and scientific conferences were

presented in Brazil and foreign countries on Veterinary and

Agriculture