Fernando Henrique Cardoso was Senator, Minister of Foreign Relations, Minister of Finance and President of Brazil for two successive terms from 1995 to 2002, winning both elections in the first round by an absolute majority.
Ph.D. in Sociology and professor at University of São Paulo, Cardoso was president of the International Sociological Association (1982-1986) and visiting professor at the universities of California, Berkeley, Collège de France, Paris, Stanford, Cambridge, Paris-Nanterre, FLACSO, ILPES and CEPAL at Santiago, Chile. More