Fundação Getulio Vargas

Fundação Getulio Vargas, FGV
Type	Private
Established	December 20, 1944
President	Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal
Location	Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Brasília, and others.

Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV of simply GV) is a Brazilian higher education institution founded in December 20, 1944. It offers regular courses of Economics, Business Administration, Law, Social Sciences and Information technology management. Its original goal was to train people for the country's public- and private-sector management. Other courses began to be offered as the institution grew.

FGV members also has produce a large amount of academic research. The subjects cover macro- and micro-economics, finance, law, health, welfare, poverty and unemployment, pollution, and sustainable development. The foundation also maintains research programs in the fields of History, Social Sciences, Education, Justice, Citizenship, and Politics. FGV also executes projects at the request of the public sector, private enterprise and international agencies such as the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

FGV Management offers lato sensu graduate programs in various fields in its Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo campuses. For firms, there is the GVPEC, FGV São Paulo's Continued Education Program.

FGV also offers in-company courses FGV's customers in this area include Caixa Econômica Federal, Banco do Brasil, Banco Itaú, Furnas Centrais Elétricas and Rede Ferroviária Federal, among others. Short-term programs include IDE's Business Administration Course ("Curso de Administração de Empresas" – CADEMP) and distance-learning programs such as FGV Online.