Economist Charles Curt Mueller, former president of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), has died at the age of 88, informs a note of regret released by the University of Brasília (UnB), of which he was professor emeritus.
According to the teaching institution, Mueller was buried on Wednesday (1st), at Campo da Esperança Cemetery, in Brasília. The cause of death was not disclosed.
“Brazil has lost a great name in academia. Professor Mueller was an amazing, generous and highly respected person. A pioneer in the area of Environmental Economics in the country”, says the dean of UnB, Márcia Abrahão, in the note of regret released by the institution.
According to the note, Mueller began teaching at UnB in 1972, was hired on the faculty in 1990, the year in which he left the presidency of IBGE.
At the national statistics body, headquartered in Rio, the economist was director of agriculture, natural resources and geography (1985-1987) and coordinator of special projects (1987-1988), before becoming president, between May 1988 and April nineteen ninety.
“During his administration, he continued the Administrative Reform, and started an unprecedented Strategic Planning with the objective of modernizing the Institute’s work”, says an excerpt from Mueller’s profile in the “Galeria de Presidentes”, available on the IBGE website.
On his return to UnB, as an effective professor, Mueller worked from 1990 to 2004, when he retired. After retiring, he became emeritus professor in 2007, the year he published the book “Economists and relations between the economic system and the environment” (Editora UnB).
“The work was one of the first and most important to deal with the theme in Brazil. In the volume, he discusses his main environmental hypotheses and the consequences caused by the economy in the ecosystem”, says the note of regret from UnB.
Mueller was born on November 15, 1934, in Curitiba (PR). He finished his degree in economics at the Faculty of Economics and Administration at the University of São Paulo (USP) in 1959.
He worked at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) from 1961 to 1971. In 1969, he began studying at Vanderbilt University, in Tennessee, United States, where he received a master’s degree in 1971 and a doctorate in 1974.
When he was already a collaborating professor at UnB, from 1982 to 1986, he was deputy secretary of the National Association of Graduate Centers in Economics (Anpec), the academic entity that brings together the main graduate programs in economics in the country.
Interest in agrarian economics and environmental issues was part of the economist’s education. Between 1980 and 1981, he did a post-doctorate in agrarian economics at the University of Manchester, England.
Between 1992 and 1993, he did another post-doctorate, in economics of natural resources at the University of Illinois, in the United States.
Source: CNN Brasil
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