Signatories

Fernando Henrique Cardoso was President of Brazil for two successive terms from 1995 to 2002, winning both elections in the first round by an absolute majority. Cardoso was President when Brazil, in an important move, acceded to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1998. A scholar by training, he earned a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of São Paulo and was president of the International Sociological Association.

Presently he is a professor-at-large at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, and the “Culture of the South” professor at the Library of Congress, Washington. He is a member of The Elders, a collection of world leaders working to address difficult global challenges.