Pierre Monbeig

Firstly Monbeig was professor in the lyceum Malherbe de Caen in 1931.

In the year of 1935 he take the position of professor of physical and human Geography in the University of São Paulo (USP), in Brazil.

Today the University of São Paulo have a chair with his name for the study of contemporaneous Brazilian Geography.

After that he taught at the University of Strasbourg, simultaneously with the post in Paris.

In 1957 he took up a position as professor of economic geography in the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), and founded the Institute for Advanced Latin American Studies.