Moore School of Business - Moore School - Alumni Anniversary meeting in Brazil

Brazil was the destination in mid-March for Dean Joel A. Smith III and Louis Dessau, associate director of Moore’s International MBA program. The duo represented the school at an IMBA alumni reunion in Rio de Janeiro March 12, then visited the city of Curitiba and Moore’s partner institution, ISAE/Fundacao Getulio Vargas, March 13-15. During the visit, Smith, Dessau, and Moore students studying Portuguese at our partner school were received by the mayor of Curitiba. The group also met with the president of the Parana Chamber of Commerce and the Curitiba City Council. At the council meeting, Dean Smith’s wife, Kit Smith, a member of Richland County Council in Columbia, South Carolina, was invited to address the Curitiba council members.


Front row, from left: Louis Dessau, Douglas Gilson, Joao Carlos Ramos, Amed Fernandez, Alvaro Guimaraes de Oliveira, Celso Neves, Armando Fabriani; back row, from left: Joel Smith, Roberto Levier, Jose Salibi Neto, Marcelo Amaral, Paulo Kessler, Mario Goncalves, Lynn Kastenhuber, Greg Pilkington, Joshua King.		Enjoying a Brazilian Barbeque are (from left) Greg Pilkington, MIBS '02, Amed Fernandez, and Mario Goncalves.

First year IMBA students in Curitiba, from left: Emery Doughtry, William Ford Graham, and James Totten.
		Paulo Kessler (left) with Joel Smith

From left: Joel Smith, Kit Smith, Hon. Beto Richa, Mayor or Curitiba, Norman de Paula Arruda Filho.		From left: Norman de Paula Arruda Filho, Dean and Mrs. Smith, Joe Claudio Desesso, President City Council, Curitiba, and Louis Dessau
From left: Suzanne Haines, Daxton Carney, Brent Totton, Emery Daughton, Ford Graham		Brian Quesenberry (left) and Chris Cottingame
From left: Dean Joel Smith, Mrs. Smith, Nelquira MacDowell, Norman de Paula Arruda Filho, Claudio Gomes Slaviero, President, Parana Chamber of Commerce		Far left: Norman de Paula Arruda Filho; kneeling, front row: Sergio Pires, Chris Cottingame; Standing, front row, from left: Louis Dessau, Katherine Flaugh, Suzanne Haines, Ford Graham, Ryan Flaherty; back row, from left: Emery Daughtry, Brian Quesenberry, Wesley Wright, Phillip Smith, Daxton Carney, Dean Smith
From left: Hamilton Suplicy, Dean Joel Smith, and Amed Fernandez		Dean and Mrs. Smith, left, with Sergio Pires

More photos are available on the City of Curitiba Web site.

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