Israel Klabin (born 20 September 1926) is a Brazilian civil engineer, mathematician, environmentalist and politician. He was born in
Rio de Janeiro.
He served as the second
Mayor of Rio de Janeiro
This is a list of mayors of Rio de Janeiro.
History
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from 15 March 1979 to 3 June 1980. He was a member of the
Brazilian Democratic Movement.
After serving as mayor, Klabin was President of the State Bank of Rio de Janeiro from 1980 to 1983.
Political career
He was a founding member of the
Instituto Superior de Estudos Brasileiros (ISEB), served as a consultant and regional development planner and co-authored guidelines for development in the Brazilian Northeast. He was also a member of the development council of the
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro ( pt, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, PUC-Rio) is a Jesuit, Catholic, pontifical university in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the joint responsibility of the Catholic Ar ...
(PUC-Rio).
He was appointed as Mayor in 1979 by the then Governor
Chagas Freitas.
He left the municipal leadership in 1980 because of the friction with the federal government due to his proposal to reexamine the law of the merger between the former state of
Guanabara and the former state of Rio de Janeiro.
Personal life
In 1950, he married Lina Caldas Paranhos, with whom he had four children.
After separation, he married again in 1975 with Léa Manela, with whom he had three more children. One of his sons,
Leonardo Klabin, was a state representative of Rio de Janeiro for the Brazilian Democratic Movement.
References
External links
About Israel Klabinat UNSDSN.org
1926 births
Living people
Mayors of Rio de Janeiro (city)
Lafer-Klabin family
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