Brazil's ex-president to teach at Brown

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (Reuters) -- Former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso has been appointed to a five-year term as a part-time professor at Brown University in Rhode Island, the school announced Tuesday.

The two-term Brazilian leader, whose party lost presidential elections in October by a landslide to Workers' Party candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, will begin his assignment at the Ivy League school on July 1.

As a "professor-at-large," Cardoso will deliver lectures, participate in conferences and work with faculty in development studies, Latin American studies, Portuguese and Brazilian studies and other departments, the university said.

Cardoso has previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, Britain's University of Cambridge and at other universities in Brazil, Chile and France.

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