Pedro Paulo Poppovic
Editor
Sur International Journal of Human Rights
Pedro Paulo Poppovic is a sociologist who graduated from the University of Sao Paulo where he was an assistant professor before joining Editora Abril, Latin America’s largest magazine publisher, where he was General Manager for 12 years. At Abril, he participated in organizing Abril Cultural, a subsidiary that specializes in part-works (fascículos) and has covered more than 150 subjects, had approximately 300,000 pages published, and sold more than 100 million copies. Poppovic later established an editorial packaging company for which he worked at for 20 years, supplying content to many of Brazil’s largest publishers, such as Globo, Jornal do Brasil, Abril and Time Life Books. In 1995 Poppovic joined the Federal Government as Secretary of Distance Education (during the two terms of the Cardoso Administration) where he set up a network of 62,000 schools equipped to receive and record 8 daily hours of educational videos produced under governmental supervision. He was responsible for the installation of approximately 400,000 computers in public schools, the necessary capacity building of teachers, and the production of educational software.
Presently he is the editor of the Sur International Journal of Human Rights, a bi-annual academic journal published in Portuguese, English and Spanish and consultant for Itaú Cultural, the publisher of an online encyclopedia featuring the history of Brazilian art. Poppovic’s academic activities include teaching at the Faculdade Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP) School of Journalism in Sao Paulo, and he has spent three semesters as a visiting scholar at Columbia University’s School of Journalism and Institute of Latin American Studies.
