Academia Panamericana de Ingenierķa
Academia Pan-Americana de Engenharia
Pan American Academy of Engineering
HAROLDO MATTOS DE LEMOS
Bachelor of Science (Mechanical Engineering) from the Polytechnic School of the Catholic University of the Rio de Janeiro, 1964. Masters Degree, with Distinction, in Sanitary Engineering from the International Institute for Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Delft, the Netherlands, 1972/1973.
Pan-American Health Organization, 1980: Proposal for the creation of a National System for Environmental Protection of Costa Rica. United Nations Environment Programme, 1991/1992: Organization of the World Environment Day 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, and support to the UNEP Delegation to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio 92. UNESCO and the Water Resources Secretariat/Ministry of Environment of Brazil, 1999/2000: Attendance of the HELP/UNESCO Task Force Meeting in Arizona, USA. Inter-American Development Bank, 2002: preparation of a document on the National Environment System and National Council on Environment of Brazil.
President of the Instituto Brasil PNUMA (Brazilian Committee for the United Nations Environment Programme), since 1991. Vice President of the Business Council for Environment and Development of the Commercial Association of Rio de Janeiro, since January 1998. Superintendent of the Brazilian Committee for Environmental Management (ISO 14000 Series) of the Brazilian Association for Standardisation since 1999. Secretary for Environmental Affairs, Ministry of Environment, Water Resources and Amazon, from April 1994 to March 1999. State Secretary for Urban and Regional Development, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from March 1987 to March 1991. Deputy Assistant Executive Director, Office of the Environment Programme, United Nations Environment Programme – UNEP, Nairobi, Kenya, from 1982 to 1987. General Director of the National Institute of Technology, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Brazil, from 1980 to 1982.
Professor of Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, since 1978, and Coordinator of the Post-Graduation Course on Environmental Management, since March 2000.
Some of his publications are: Amazonia: In Defense of Brazil’s Sovereignty, published in the magazine, May 1990. Environment and Sustainable Development, 1992. Water and Sustainable Development, 1999. Environment in Mercosul, 1999. Competitividade e Meio Ambiente, 2000. Environmental Technologies and International Trade, 2003.
Rio Branco Order Commend, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil, 1988. Friend of the Navy Medal, Brazilian Navy Ministry.
