Professional Career

1997-1999                  President, UNESCO General Conference, Paris

1988-1993                  Deputy Director-General for Programme, UNESCO, Paris

1988-1989                  Acting Assistant Director-General for Social and Human 

                                    Sciences,UNESCO

1987-1988                  Secretary for Culture, State of Rio de Janeiro

1985-1986                  Education, Culture et Communication Committee

                                   Coordinator,Constitutional Studies Commission, Presidency of the

                                   Brazilian Republic

1979 and 1980           Minister of Education, Culture and Sports, Republic of Brazil

                                   President, Interministerial Commission for Science and 

                                   Technology, Brazil

1979                           Director, Faculty of Literature, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

1968-1971                  Director, Rio de Janeiro State Department of Culture

1961-1964                  Executive Director, Brazilian Federal Institute of African and 

                                    Asian Studies

1960-1961                  Director of the Executive Office, Rio de Janeiro (Guanabara)

                                   State Department of Education

1956-1961                  Assistant in the Civil Cabinet of the President of the 

                                    Brazilian Republic