Eloi Ferreira de Araújo (born 15 June 1959) is a Brazilian zoologist and lawyer. He served as the
Minister of Racial Equality from 2010 to 2011.
He later served as the president of the
Palmares Cultural Foundation from 2011 to 2013. He is a member of the
Workers' Party (PT).
Biography
Ferreira was born on 15 June 1959 in
Itaperuna
Itaperuna () is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. It had a population of 103,800 in 2020, and has an area of 1.105,3 km2.
History
Itaperuna was founded in 1889, after being separated from the municipality of Campos do ...
, in the state of
Rio de Janeiro. His family moved to
Petrópolis in the 1960s. He graduated with a degree in
zootechnics
Zootechnics is the art of managing domestic or captive animals, including handling, breeding, and keeping.
Based on: genetics, reproduction ( animal husbandry), feeding and nutrition, handling, health (preventive medicine) and economics.
See also ...
from the
Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro in 1975.
He worked in the field beginning in the 1980s. In the 1990s, he graduated with a law degree and later, in 2002, graduated with a master's degree in transportation engineering from
COPPE, with the
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
He also graduated as a machinist from
SENAI
:For the Malaysian town with the same name, see Senai.''
Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial (SENAI), Portuguese language for ''National Service for Industrial Training'' is a network of profitable secondary level professional schools es ...
in the 1970s, also becoming active in political activism during this time period. He co-founded the PT in 1981. Afterwards, he secretly joined the
Communist Party (PCdoB), before returning to the PT in 1994.
In 1987, he moved to
Brasília, where he became chief of staff to federal deputy . He returned to Rio de Janeiro in 1989 to become chief of staff to city councilor
Edson Santos during his time with the
municipal chamber
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
. He also coordinated Santos' reelection campaigns, as well as his campaigns for federal deputy and for senator.
In 2008, he became adjunct secretary of the Ministry of Racial Equality at Santos' invitation. After Santos resigned to run for public office in 2010, Ferreira assumed the ministerial position until the end of the first
Lula administration. He was succeeded by
Luiza Helena de Bairros.
During the administration of
Dilma Rousseff, he became the president of the Palmares Cultural Foundation from 2011 to 2013.
References
External links
Website on the President's website
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1959 births
Living people
People from Itaperuna
People from Petrópolis
Brazilian politicians of African descent
Workers' Party (Brazil) politicians
Communist Party of Brazil politicians
Government ministers of Brazil
Brazilian zoologists
Brazilian lawyers
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro alumni