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insects. She is also a part of the Engineers Without Borders Harvard Chapter, the Rocketry Club,
and she is on the board of Harvard Organization for Latin Americans. In her free time, Maria
enjoys running, traveling, listening to music, hiking, socializing and scuba-diving.
Marcus Vinicius BERGOZINI DO
PRADO
Poli-USP, 5 th-year undergraduate student
in Environmental Engineering
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mv.bergonzini@gmail.com
Marcus Vinicius was born in Mogi das Cruzes, a midsize city near São Paulo. He is a fifth-year
undergraduate student at Poli-USP concentrating in Environmental Engineering. His academic
interest lies in comprehending soil and groundwater contamination, as well as technologies to
remediate these global problems. Marcus was the student body representative at the Commission
for Environmental Engineering Course Organization at Poli-USP during two consecutive years and
he participated in a Sustainability Business Plan Competition in London. He loves reading and
discussing a wide range of subjects, including Politics, Philosophy, Science, and Cinema. Marcus is
currently applying to a Master’s Degree program.
Pedro Ludovico BOZZINI
Poli-USP, 4th-year undergraduate student
in Environmental Engineering
trifas@gmail.com
Pedro Ludovico Bozzini is a fourth-year undergraduate student concentrating in Environmental
Engineering at the Poli-USP. He was born and raised in São Paulo, where his interest in problems
of large urban centers began. Pedro recently took part in an undergraduate research project on
hydrology using stochastic modeling. In this collaborative field course, he looks forward to learning
more about the management of areas affected by extreme events. He enjoys music, games, and
movies.
John BRISCOE
Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice
of Environmental Engineering, Harvard
School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences (SEAS)
John Briscoe’s career has focused on the issues of water and economic development. He has
worked as an engineer in the water agencies of South Africa and Mozambique; as an epidemiologist
at the Cholera Research Center in Bangladesh; as a professor of water resources at the University of
North Carolina; and, for the past 20 years in a variety of policy and operational positions in the
World Bank. Most recently he has served as the Bank’s Senior Water Advisor and the Country
Director for Brazil. Briscoe joined the faculty at Harvard in 2009 and is directing the Harvard Water
Security Initiative, a research program which draws together a wide range of disciplines relevant to
water management, and which is developing cooperative research programs with a number of
countries, initially including Australia, Brazil, Pakistan and the United States. In addition to the
United States, Briscoe has lived in his native South Africa, Bangladesh, Mozambique, India and
Brazil. Briscoe has served on the Water Science and Technology Board of the National Academy of
Sciences and was a founding member of the major global water partnerships, including the World