International Advisory Council

Emerson de Almeida has been the Dean of Fundação Dom Cabral since its creati on in 1976. He has a Bachelor’s in Economics from the College of Economic Sciences – Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. He also has a “Maitrise” from the University of Paris – Insti tut Français de Presse – (1972).

Dean Almeida has guided the negoti ati ons to implement the alliances with INSEAD (France), Kellogg (USA) and UBC (Canada). He is currently guiding the implementati on of a network corporati on among business schools in Latin America and BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China). Dean Almeida has directed the implementati on of the FDC Partnership projects with companies; currently, FDC has over 300 associated companies. He is a member of the Internati onal Advisory Council of Guanghua Business School (Peking University), a member of the Internati onal Insead Council (France) and of the Plenary Assembly of Gazeta Mercanti l’s Entrepreneurial Leaders Forum. He was elected National Entrepreunerial Leader for the Educati on Sector in 2006 at Forum de Líderes / Gazeta Mercantil Brazilian Newspaper.

He is the author of the book Fundamentos da Empresa Relevante – Meu aprendizado na FDC, Campus Press, 2006 – (Fundamentals of the Outstanding Company – Learning I Acquired at FDC) and has many arti cles writt en.