User:Sergio Muniz de Souza

Sergio Muniz de Souza was born in São Paulo, SP, Brazil, graduated from the University of São Paulo Law School and pursued post-graduate studies at the Universities of Chicago (Master of Comparative Law) and Pennsylvania. In the former he was a Fullbright student and in the latter the first foreigner to be awarded the Bi-Centennial Scholarship on Criminal Law and Administration.

After a varied career in university teaching and law (Baker, McKenzie), he was a director of major multinational companies, among which Perkins, Ingersoll-Rand and Caterpillar. In 1980 he established his own firm, MDS, which specializes in international commerce and organizational restructuring.

Founder and the only Latin American member of ICN - International Consultants Network, he was a Director of the American Chamber of Commerce and is a Vice-President of the Brazilian-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce.

Always engaged in civic activities, he was a Director of the São Paulo YMCA; a Rotarian since 1969, he presided (92/94) São Paulo-Jardim América Rotary Club.

His latest book is titled Comunicação Eficaz Descomplicada (lit. Uncomplicated Effective Communication).

Languages: Portuguese(mother tongue), English, French, Spanish and Italian.