Fernando de Souza Meirelles

Professor, executive and consultant for over 40 years.Full Professor at GV (São Paulo Business School at Fundação Getulio Vargas - FGV EAESP), teaching in all its programs: Undergraduate, Academic and Professional Masters, PhD, CEAG, Executive Master, MBA, MPA, MPGC, OneMBA, GVconsult, GVpec and GVnet.At GV he was elected: Head of the Department of Education and Research of Technology and Data Science for four terms, Executive Director and Dean - General Director (1999 to 2007).During this eight-year period, Prof. Meirelles dedicated to the direction of GV. In his first term, he was responsible, among others, for the areas: Financial, Administrative, Human Resources, Information Technology, Consulting (GVconsult) and Executive Education (GVpec). In the general direction, he started to preside over the Congregation (GV Assembly) and the Academic Management Council. Consolidated and expanded GV's internationalization process, reaching more than 80 alliances and partnerships with the best Business Schools in the world. During this period, GV increased its recognition of pioneering spirit and national and international excellence and more than doubled the number of students, revenue, and financial results.Director or member of the Board of several companies, associations and organizations, including: Abranet, ADVB, Angrad, Anpad, EMC Consultoria, FGV EAESP, IMT - Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia, Incor and Fundação Zerbini (Chairs Compliance Committee), Instituto and Fundação Butantan, LIDE - Business Leaders (Presides LIDE Content), Prodesp, Promei Agropecuária and Sumaq (Alliance of Business Schools).Business consultant in the fields of Applied Information Technology and Strategic Planning, having participated and coordinated numerous projects in important private and public companies.His academic experience begins as an assistant student and director of the academic center in the undergraduate engineering course at IMT-EEM. After a master's degree (MSc, Engineering Management) at Stanford University, he began teaching at the Mauá School of Engineering and at GV. He holds a PhD in Business Administration from FGV EAESP. Participated in several graduate programs at Harvard Business School, at the MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the University of Texas at Austin.Ad-hoc academic consultant to organizations: AACSB International (American Association of Business Schools), Capes, CGI.br (Brazilian Internet Steering Committee), CNPq; CRA-SP (chairs the Committee of the Year), EFMD - Equis (European Foundation of Management Development), Fapesp and SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online), among others. Visiting professor at INA - National Institute of Administration of the Council of Ministers of Portugal.Created and directed Continuing Education courses for Executives and Study and Research Centers at Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia and at GV, among others: FGVcia - Center for Applied Information Technology and GVnet for Distance Education.Author of hundreds of articles, technical reports, research and publications, such as books: Informatics - New Applications with Microcomputers, Makron, McGraw-Hill / Pearson, 42nd reprint, 2016; Banking Technology in Brazil - a history of achievement, a vision of the future, http://hdl.handle.net/10438/13532, FGV RAE, Ciab Febraban, 2010; Excel in practice, Editora FGV, 12th edition, 2014, www.fgv.br/cia/excel and the Annual IT Organizations Use Survey, FGVcia, 35nd edition, 2024, www.fgv.br/cia/pesquisa. In the 80's, he produced several pioneering technical publications in Informatics (IT, ICT and SI): Exame Informática, Info, Guia do PC, Bits e Informática Hoje.Created and directed, for five terms, the Information Administration (ADI) area of ANPAD (Brazilian Academy of Management). Member of the Editorial Board of the main publications in Administration: Agroanalisys, BAR, GV Executivo, RAC, RAE, LIDE Magazine and Business and Society Review / Universia Business Review. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)