CEOAssociação Bem Comum
Teacher and lawyer, Veveu Arruda was a municipal secretary, vice-mayor and mayor of Sobral, his hometown, between 1997 and 2016. He led one of the most successful cases of educational policy reform - recognized not only in Brazil, but around the world. His policies raise Sobral from 55th to 1st in the Brazilian Education Quality Index, increasing literacy from 52% to 92% in just 5 years. His team was later responsible for scaling this success story to the entire state of Ceara. Veveu currently heads the Bem Comum Association, a non-profit organization that supports Brazilian municipalities and states in designing and implementing policies to improve learning, with an emphasis on children's literacy, inspired by the experiences of Sobral and Ceará.