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Claudio de Moura Castro is the president of the Advisory
Council of Faculdade Pitágoras.
He has a B.A. in economics from the University of Minas
Gerais, an M.A. from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in economics
from Vanderbilt University. He also completed one year of
doctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley.
His research focuses on labor markets, social and economic
aspects of education, vocational training and science and
technology policies, and he has published over thirty books
and around three hundred scholarly articles on these topics.
He has taught at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro,
the Vargas Foundation, the University of Chicago, the University
of Brasilia, the University of Geneva, and the University
of Burgundy, Dijon. He also served as technical coordinator
of the ECIEL research project on education (comprising ten
Latin American countries). He was the director of CAPES
(Brazilian Agency for Postgraduate Education), and he has
also served as the executive secretary of CNRH (the Brazilian
social policy institute of the Planning Secretariat). From
1986 and 1992, he was the chief of the Training Policies
Branch of the International Labour Office (Geneva). He has
also worked in a Technical Division of the World Bank as
senior human resource economist and as division chief of
the Social Programs Division of the Inter-American Development
Bank (IDB). Later he served as the chief educational advisor
of the IDB.
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