Jose Ferreira Irmão, 63, Senior Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Economics of UFPE (University of Pernambuco, Brazil) 

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What nowadays is called “sustainable development” has been the core of his attention for more than twenty years. It started in the beginning of the 1970’s, while working for his Master´s degree at Yale University in the USA. He finished his Programme of Studies with the thesis “A Contribution to the Study of Agricultural Development in Brazil” under the supervision of the famous D. H. Fei and Gustav Ranis, both of the Economic Growth Center. Further he developed the same theme in relation to the Northeast of Brazil, when accomplishing his Ph. D. thesis at University College London, a school of the University of London. His supervisor was David E. Goodman, a great name in the same area of “sustainable development”. Prof. Ferreira has written plenty of articles on economics and economic development and published in national and international Reviews and periodicals. Professionaly, he has worked for the United Nations, the International Labour Office (ILO) and has taught at important international universities, as London University, Equator university, Rio de Janeiro university and Federal University of Pernambuco. He is actually teaching at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels. For a broader view of his academic career, see his complete CV at 

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