Mr. Eduardo Aguiar De Almeida

Nationality: Brazilian

Occupation: Consultant, as indigenist, at Eletronorte (State corporation for electric energy in Amazon Region)

EDUCACION

“Junior and High School” levels in Brazil (Salvador, Porto Alegre and Rio de Janeiro) and USA (Bethesda, Maryland).
Universitarian formation (not concluded) in Social Sciences and History: UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and UnB (Federal University of Brasília) 1970 - 1978.
Universitarian formation (not concluded) in Journalism: UFBA (Federal University of Bahia) 1986.
Technical formation and draft as Indigenist technitian: Funai (Brazilian Federal Foundation for Indian Affairs), 1979.

Journalist - various large midia newspapers and TV stations in Brazil, at Rio de Janeiro (1972 - 74), Brasília (1974 - 79) and Salvador (1981-84).
Indigenist - At Funai (Brazilian Federal Foundation for Indian Affairs) as head of Posto Indígena Santa Isabel do Morro, Bananal Island, Tocantins state, 1980. Dismissed by military regime in 1980, benefited by amnesty in 1993, resigning afterwards. Consultant Advisor for Funai’s Chairman in 2000-2001. Chairman (President), jan - aug 2003.
Indigenist - At NGOs, specially at “Projeto Madeira” (Amazonas State) in 1980-81, and Anaí - Associação Nacional de Ação Indigenista (mainly Bahia State) in periods from 1981 to 2004.
Entrepeneur in tropical farming and breeding - In Bahia State, from 1981 to 2002.
Journalist and Indigenist - Consultant at MMA (Brazilian Ministry of Environment) / SCA - Secretaria de Coordenação da Amazônia (Amazon Region Coordination Secretariat), jan-dec 2002, oct-dec 2003.

Chairman of INTERBA - Instituto de Terras da Bahia (State Land Institute), 1987-89.
Council member, including Chairman, of NGO Anaí (periods from 1981 to present day)
Council member of civil associations in journalism and cattle breeding (periods, from 1977 to 2002)

Articles on newspapers, magazines and other periodicals, specially on themes as general politics, Indian and ethnic issues, rural and regional development and cattle breeding.
Co-authorship in paper on indigenous peoples policy (Compromisso com os Povos Indígenas) for President Lula’s electoral campaing, 2002.