Jacques Marcovitch

[citation needed] He also served as director of the Institute for Advanced Studies[3] from 1988 to 1993 developing projects about reforestation and intersectoral cooperation on carbon emission mitigation programmes.

His research interests can be highlighted in five main areas: In 1974 he completed his thesis on Organisational Effectiveness, and formed the first Programme of Science and Technology Management (PACTo) with a number of his peers in an agreement established with Vanderbilt University.

During the UN conference on climate and development in Hamburg in 1988, the climatologist Wilfred Bach challenged the members of the Brazilian delegation to launch a forestry recovery project on a never before seen scale.

"A USP e seus desafios" (EDUSP) in 2001, published in two volumes, organised by Marília Junqueira Caldas, reproduces his texts and others from the University Policy Forum.

In June 2020 he coordinated the III Fórum “The crises of 2020 and the new era emerging”, a space for dialogue and collaboration focused on New Scientific Leadership to articulate proposals for the universities confronting the social, economic and environmental impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

An itinerant exhibition was conceived by Maria Cristina Oliveira Bruno based on the contents, and a reflection on the process of translation to a museum was published “Os caminhos e processos da musealização”.

Between 1988 and 1993 he coordinated the Group of Analysis of International Affairs at USP made up of Celso Lafer, Gilberto Dupas, Lenina Pomeranz, Geraldo Forbes, Tullo Vigevani.

At the moment of the death of the Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello, in a bombing at the UN headquarters in Baghdad in 2003, Marcovitch organised a series of essays with scholars and specialists.

The result of this initiative was the publication of the book “Sérgio Vieira de Mello - Pensamento e Memória” (Edusp/ Saraiva), bringing together some of his articles and most relevant interviews translated into Portuguese and original contributions from intellectuals and diplomats about the thoughts of the man who reached the post of the High Commission on Human Rights at the United Nations.