22261-040 Rio de Janeiro - Tel. 21 2539 3403 - 2527 6380
Office: PACS - tel./fax 5521 2210 2124
R.I.1.641.396-5 IFP-RJ - CPF 606 957 147 91
marruda@pacs.org.br - marcos.penna@terra.com.br (personal)
Economist and educator
Born in 1941, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Married to Catherine de Arruda Lambelet (Swiss citizen). Their son Pablo was born in
Aug. 2, 1990 and has Brazilian and Swiss citizenship.
Languages: Brazilian, English, Spanish and French (written and spoken) and Italian.
1.Professionalactivities in Development Economics:
A) Current:
- Economist and educator - Since 1986 - Associated with PACS - Institute of Alternative Policies for the Southern Cone of Latin America, which he helped set up in 1986 with economists from Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. General Coordinator; economic researcher and consultant; youth and adult educator.
- Networks - Represents PACS in a number of networks: Jubilee Brazil and Jubilee Americas Networks; Brazil Network on the Multilateral Financial Institutions (IFIs); and others.
- Global animation - Since 1997 - Member of the Global Animation Team of the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and Solidarity-based Economy (ALOE, ex-WSSE).
- Educator of educators - In the last 20 years has worked as educator of educators, with youth and adults, through courses and seminars in schools belonging to trade unions.
Researcher
- Since 1975 - has been a fellow researcher of the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute. Participates in fellows' meetings, international seminars and research programs. Was a member of TNI's governing board between 1997-2000.
- Since 2005 - member of RILESS, the Latin American Network of Researchers on a Solidarity-based Socioeconomy.
B) Past professional experiences:
Consultant - Has worked as a consultant in the areas of development economics and education with municipal governments in Brazil also as a consultant to national governments (Guiné Bissau, Cape Verde, Nicaragua, Ireland) in the areas of development economics, community development and youth and adult education.
Lecturer
- 2004-2007 - Lecturer on Corporate Social Responsibility to managers of the largest State-owned enterprise in Brazil, Petrobrás.
- 1997-1998 - Lecturer and educator on community development as a consultant to Community Action Network and the Ministry of Social Affairs of the Republic of Ireland.
- 1992-1995 - Between 1992 e 1995, was coordinator of the International NGO Working Group on the World Bank.
-1982-1986 - Was a co-founder of Ibase - Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Analysis, with Herbet Souza - Betinho - and Carlos Afonso, where he served as programs director between 1982 and 1986, also working as an economic researcher and as educator.
- 1979-1982 -Economic consultant for the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland.
- 1979-1988 - Served as consultant to the Ministry of Education of Nicaragua.
- 1975-1978 - Worked four years as an economist and educator with Prof. Paulo Freire at the Institute of Cultural Action, during the exile of both in Switzerland. * Served as a consultant to the Ministries of Education of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde.
- 1965-1967 - Worked as in aero photographic interpretation and structural geology with PROSPEC, Petrópolis, RJ and São Paulo, SP, and as a teacher in Geosciences and modern mathematics.
3. Academic History:
Since 1997 - Professor of Solidarity-based Economy and Human Development in various campuses of UNIPAZ - International University for Peace in Brazil and abroad.
Since 1976 - * Lecturer at several Universities in Brazil and abroad.
Consultant with national and local governments on development and youth-adult education.
2006 - Visiting professor at the Institute of Development Studies of the University of Geneva (Mar-Apr).
2005 - Visiting professor at the Center for Latin American Studies, Watson Institute of International Relations, Brown University (Aug-Dec.), Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
1983-1992 - Professor of the Department of Philosophy of Education of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Education - IESAE/FGV.
PhD in Education and Economicsat the Fluminense Federal University (Niterói, RJ), with the dissertation entitled "Education for what Work? Work for what Human Being? Reflections on Education and Work, its meaning and its Future". Summa cum Laude and recommended for publication by the examining board. Vozes Editing House is publishing the dissertation as a trilogy (in three volumes).
Master of Arts in Development Economics at The American University, Washington DC.
Graduation in Geology at the National Scholl of Geologyof the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in 1964.
Studied Philosophy and Classical Languages between 1959 and 1960, at the School of Philosophy of the Society of Jesus, Itaici, SP.
4.Publications
A TRILOGY:
1. "Humanizing the Infra-Human - The Education of the Integral Human Being: Evolutionary Homo, Praxis and Solidarity-based Economy", 2003, Brazilian edition by Editora Vozes, Petrópolis, and Spanish edition by Icaria Editorial, Barcelona (an English translation is being revised for publication)
2. "Making Real what is Possible - The Education of the Integral Human Being: Solidarity-based Economy, Development, and the Future of Labor", 2006, Editora Vozes, Petrópolis. (Brazilian and Spanish)
3. "Education for a Love Economy - The Education of the Integral Human Being: Praxis Education and Solidarity-based Economy" (in Brazilian), Editora Vozes, Petrópolis (to be published in 2008). (Brazilian)
4. "Letters to Lula - Another Brazil is Possible", 2006, Documenta Historica Editora, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
5. "Faith and Politics - Foundations", co-author, 2004, Editora Idéias e Letras, São Paulo.
6. "The Other Economy", 2003, Edit. Veraz, Porto Alegre, RS; co-author, having written two entries, one about Solidarity-based Socioeconomy and the other about Emancipated Work (Brazilian). The latter is included in the French version of this book, published in 2005 by the name of "Dictionnaire de l'Autre Economie", by Desclée de Brouwer, Paris. (French)
7. "External Debt: Brazil and the International Financial Crisis", 2000, Pluto Press and the Transnational Institute, London. (English)
8. "E(X)ternal Debt: For Capital, Everything, for the Social, Crumbles" 1999, Editora Vozes, Petrópolis. (Brazilian)
9. "Globalization - Socioeconomic, Ethical and Educational Challenges" (in Brazilian),
2000, with Prof. Leonardo Boff, Editora Vozes, Petrópolis. (Brazilian)
10. "Beyond Bretton Woods: Alternatives to the International Economic
System", 1994, co-editor and co-author with Daphne Wysham and John
Cavanagh, Pluto Press, London and the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam. (English)
