Simon Schwartzman

He was the President of the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and is a retired professor from the Federal University of Minas Gerais.

Schwartzman received his BA in Sociology, Political Science and Public Administration from the Federal University of Minas Gerais.

In late 1965 he left Brazil to work as a fellow of the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway, invited by Johan Galtung.

Between 1976 and 1979 he worked at the Brazilian Financing Agency for Studies and Projects (FINEP), and, between 1989 and 1994, at the University of São Paulo, as professor of political science and academic coordinator of the Research Group on Higher Education (NUPES).

In 1984 he was one of the co-authors of  The New Production of Knowledge [13] a book which created a major debate by arguing that contemporary science and technology was shifting towards a different institutional arrangement called “mode 2”.

[14] [15] [16] In 2006-7 he coordinated the project with results published as University and Development in Latin America: Successful Experiences of Research Centers, in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico.

In the 1980s he worked at the Center for Contemporary History of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in Brazil, doing research on the establishment of Brazil’s education institutions in the 1930s, published as Tempos de Capanema [18] In 1989-94 he participated in a comparative study on higher education policies in Latin America, and published as Latin America: Universities in Transition [19] in 1996.