Adolf A. Berle and in the expansion of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1944. After the war, Berle served as Ambassador to Brazil from 1945 to 1946. In October 1945, two days after the deposition of president Getulio Vargas, Berle pledged for the freedom of the Brazilian communists who were being incarcerated by the government since the beginning of the month. He then returned to his academic career at Columbia. Berle was a founding member of the New York State Liberal Party, a breakaway faction of the American Labor Party,
Ricardo Viana Vargas project management from George Washington University and training in strategy and innovation from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Vargas has been a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) since 1997 and served on the PMI’s Board of Directors from 2007-2009. He was the first Brazilian member of the Institute’s Board. Vargas became the first Latin American chair of the Board in 2009. He has written multiple books on project management. Vargas also served as a reviser to the project management manual A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) published by PMI and chaired the Translation Verification