ANTONIO DIVINO MOURA
Former Director General, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction at Columbia University, New York, USA
Antonio Divino Moura is former Director of the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction. Previously, he held the
position of Director of Meteorology (and Senior Researcher) at the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE), where he
played an important role in establishing its research and graduate program in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography (1970-96). In
1985, he was invited by the Brazilian Minister of Agriculture to take the post of Director General of the National Meteorological
Service (INMET) in order to coordinate the modernization of forecasting methods, data collection and transmission.
Dr. Moura's collaborative research on the causes of droughts over Northeastern Brazil determined that the Atlantic Ocean plays as
important role as the El Niņo phenomenon over that region. From 1988-90 Dr. Moura was co-Chair of the IPCC WGI. He was invited to
serve as the Chief Scientist of the NOAA's Office of Global Programs (1991-93), where he worked with a team of international
scientists to develop the IRI, envisioned as an institution that simultaneously seeks to produce climate forecasts and apply them for
the benefit of societies, particularly in the developing world. He also served during that time as Chair of the Inter- governmental
TOGA Board, an international (18 countries) resources board responsible for promoting the TOGA program and the IRI concept.
In 1996 he became Professor of Physics (Electricity and Magnetism) at University of Taubaté, Brazil, leaving
the position in 2002. Elected a Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences in 1998, he is now working with scientists and
colleagues at Columbia University and other research centers in Brazil and Latin America to advance climate forecast skills and to
foster the use of these forecasts in support of development and poverty reduction in many areas of the globe. Beginning 2003, Moura
became an invited Visiting Professor at FEIT (a university foundation) in Ituiutaba, MG, his hometown in Brazil.
Dr. Moura holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1974), where he received the Carl
Gustav Rossby Award for the most outstanding Meteorology thesis of the year. He also holds an Electrical Engineer degree from UFMG,
Brazil (1969).
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