{"id":30945,"date":"2021-04-28T07:07:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T11:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upr.edu\/?page_id=30945"},"modified":"2022-08-11T15:14:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T19:14:51","slug":"about-the-president","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.upr.edu\/ac\/about-the-president\/","title":{"rendered":"About the President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=\u00bb2\/3&#8243;][vc_text_separator title=\u00bb\u00bb title_align=\u00bbseparator_align_left\u00bb][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Luis A. Ferrao Delgado, PhD<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">President of University of Puerto Rico.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Luis A. Ferrao graduated with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in History from the R\u00edo Piedras Campus of the University of Puerto Rico in 1980 and obtained his master&#8217;s degree in Latin American Studies from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, FLACSO, Mexico. He completed his doctoral degree in Political Science at the Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico-UNAM in 1988 holding postdoctoral studies in Advanced Studies of Contemporary History and International Relations at the University of Paris I-Pantheon Sorbonne.<\/p>\n<p>Dr.\u00a0Ferrao\u00a0has worked as a professor for the University of Puerto Rico, R\u00edo Piedras Campus since 1988 and during his tenure, he has collaborated in several working committees for the Department of Social Sciences within the School of General Studies of the R\u00edo Piedras Campus. Furthermore, he has held various titles and positions including being the Director of the Project for European Studies, Dean of the Faculty of General\u00a0Studies,\u00a0and Chancellor of the R\u00edo Piedras Campus.\u00a0 As of July 1,\u00a02022,\u00a0Dr. Luis A Ferrao has reached the pinnacle of his career by holding the title of President of the University of Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his career, Dr. Ferrao has made numerous publications and contributions in books, articles, and other journals. His line of research has been focused on Puerto Rican politics and the Spanish Civil War receiving invitations to speak in various national and international forums.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition to his contributions at the University of Puerto Rico, Dr. Ferrao proudly served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture from 1985 to 1987. His\u00a0favorite hobbies are reading, soccer and the game of chess, where he fondly remembers holding the title of Puerto Rican state champion.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\u00bb1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=\u00bb37478&#8243; img_size=\u00bblarge\u00bb][vc_column_text]<strong>Luis A. Ferrao, PhD.<\/strong><br \/>\nPresident of the University of Puerto Rico<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upr.edu\/ac\/sobre-el-presidente\/\"><strong>Espa\u00f1ol<\/strong><\/a><\/h6>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=\u00bb2\/3&#8243;][vc_text_separator title=\u00bb\u00bb title_align=\u00bbseparator_align_left\u00bb][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Luis A. Ferrao Delgado, PhD President of University of Puerto Rico.\u00a0 Dr. Luis A. Ferrao graduated with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in History from the R\u00edo Piedras Campus of the University of Puerto Rico in 1980 and obtained his master&#8217;s degree in Latin American Studies from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30945","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.upr.edu\/ac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.upr.edu\/ac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.upr.edu\/ac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.upr.edu\/ac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.upr.edu\/ac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30945"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.upr.edu\/ac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37508,"href":"https:\/\/www.upr.edu\/ac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30945\/revisions\/37508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.upr.edu\/ac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}