The CEO of ISPN in the 1990s, and professor emeritus at the University of Brasília, leaves a legacy of economic research and environmental awareness.
The Institute for Society, Population and Nature (ISPN) would not have the history it has today were it not for the commitment of the people present and past on its team. One of the people who marked the organization's beginnings is Professor Charles Mueller, who was buried on Wednesday, February 1st. ISPN is proud to have had him as its President-Director between 1996 and 1998. Mueller leaves a legacy of research and environmental conservation.
A native of Curitiba and professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Brasília (UnB), Mueller contributed to the fields of environmental economics and agricultural economics. At a time when the focus was solely on the Amazon, during the 1990s, Mueller drew attention to the Cerrado biome and wrote seriously about the impacts of agribusiness expansion.
Mueller, as a person and colleague, was polite, considerate, and above all, generous, taking responsibility for ISPN while holding an unpaid position (non-profit organizations are prohibited from remunerating this type of work).
ISPN deeply regrets the death of Professor Charles Mueller and expresses its solidarity with his family and loved ones who mourn his passing. The mark this researcher leaves on Brazilian environmental conservation research is immortal, and his contribution to institutional history will never be forgotten.