Faculty Leadership & Course Organizers
This course will include leading faculty members from Harvard and from multiple institutions in Brazil. The course is being built on a solid existing foundation of Harvard faculty engagement in the country. Scot Martin, Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Chemistry at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), spent the fall semester of the 2007-2008 year in Brazil as a Visiting Professor at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Martin is the faculty lead from Harvard and will participate for the duration of the course. John Briscoe, Professor of the Practice of Environmental Health at SEAS and at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), will also participate in the course. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty in 2009, Briscoe served as the Country Director for the World Bank in Brazil. Marie Dahleh, Assistant Dean for Academic Programs and Senior Lecturer on Engineering Sciences at SEAS, will be a course lecturer and will be in Brazil for the majority of the course.
A number of Brazilian professors and institutions, including universities and private companies, will partner with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) Brazil Office to ensure that the course is a collaborative initiative designed to benefit participants from both Harvard and Brazil. Located in São Paulo and headed by Jason Dyett, the Brazil Office program staff has over 15 years of combined experience at Harvard in Cambridge. The team develops and runs programs that serve the University’s students and faculty in pursuing Harvard's research and teaching mission.