Fundação Getúlio Vargas Fundação Getúlio Vargas Fundação Getúlio Vargas ("Getulio Vargas Foundation", often abbreviated as FGV) is a Brazilian higher education institution and think tank founded on December 20, 1944, with a mission "To stimulate Brazil’s socioeconomic development". Its initial objective was to prepare qualified people to work in public and private administration in Brazil. FGV is considered by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program of the "University of Pennsylvania" as top think tank in Latin America, best managed think tank worldwide and seventh best think tank in the world. FGV offers undergraduate programs, graduate & MBA programs, as well as Master's
National Industrial Training Service of the State of Rio de Janeiro 1941, Euvaldo Lodi and Roberto Simonsen managed the then President Getulio Vargas granted companies the responsibility to create an entity of industrial education: "Soon after, in January 1942, Getulio Vargas decreed the creation of SENAI. It was established that the SENAI, born under the name of National Service of Industrialists' Training, would be maintained through contributions from industry employers. Its scope was broadened to the "transport, communication and fishing sectors, which, conserving the acronym, was renamed the National Industrial Training Service of the State of Rio de Janeiro, by Decree law in 4936, of 7 November 1942". In the decades