Carlos Minc Baumfeld

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Carlos Minc Baumfeld, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1951, is a Brazilian environmentalist, journalist and parliamentarian. As a university student he was active in the resistance to the Brazilian military dictatorship and as a result of this was arrested in 1969. Minc was expelled from Brazil shortly after and lived the next ten years in exile mainly in France and Portugal. On his return to Brazil with the 1979 general amnesty he became involved in the ecological movement and together with Fernando Gabeira, Alfredo Sirkis and others founded the Brazilian Green Party (Partido Verde). He has a PhD in Developmental Economy from Sorbonne University and is a professor of Environmental Geography at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Minc has served as a state parliamentarian for Rio de Janeiro for over 5 mandates and is currently the chair of the Parliament’s Science, Technology and Environment Committee. He has published extensively on Ecology, Citizenship and Development including several books.