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
Jorge B. Vargas country in 1941, Vargas was designated to the Department of National Defense as its secretary. A few weeks later, he was appointed by President Manuel Quezon as mayor of the Greater Manila area in 1941. His responsibilities included administering the open city upon the arrival of occupational troops of the Imperial Japanese Army on January 2, 1942. By 1942, Vargas became chairman of the Japanese-sponsored Philippine Executive Commission. During the collaborationist Second Philippine Republic, he was once asked by the Japanese to assume the Presidency, but he declined. He instead served as the regime's Ambassador to Japan. In that position,