Director of the Liberdade e Cidadania (DEM) Foundation and Councilman of Rio de Janeiro / Brazil

He has been Constituent Federal Deputy and Major of Rio de Janeiro for three mandates (from 1993 to 1997 and 2001 to 2009). Exiled in Chile during the military dictatorship in Brazil, he graduated in Economics at the University of Chile. He is the current Director of the Liberdade e Cidadania Foundation, member of the Demócratas party, and represents the latter in South American affairs, as well as acting as an international observer. He is also the Vice President of the Centrist Democrat International, an association of political parties to which both PP (Spain) and CDU (Germany) belong. [Brazil]