05/13/2025
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(RI President for 2025-26).
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Mario Cesar Martins de Camargo is a business consultant to the printing industry and former director of Grรกfica Bandeirantes, a printing company founded by his father. Under de Camargoโs leadership, the company expanded to be a supplier of printed material for clients in Brazil and elsewhere in South America.
De Camargo attended military school and graduated from a secondary school in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, during a Rotary Youth Exchange program. He had a yearlong internship at MAN Roland, a printing press manufacturer in Offenbach, Germany, before he earned his undergraduate degree at the Fundaciรณn Getulio Vargasโ Sรฃo Paulo School of Business Administration. He also received his law degree from the Faculty of Law of Sรฃo Bernardo do Campo.
He has led numerous professional associations, including as president of the Brazilian Association of Graphic Technology and ABIGRAF, the Brazilian Printing Industry Association. He was also delegate director of the Federation of Industries of the State of Sรฃo Paulo (FIESP) in the National Confederation of Industry, vice president of FIESP, and vice president of the Latin American Confederation of the Printing Industry. He received the Printing Leader of the Americas award from the Printing Association of Florida and the Global Presidential Print Award from NPES, the Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing, and Converting Technologies.
De Camargo joined Rotary in 1980 at age 23. A past director and trustee, he will be the fourth RI president from Brazil. He has volunteered for numerous roles including RI learning facilitator, zone coordinator for the Avoidable Blindness Task Force, Latin American coordinator for the Health Concerns Task Force, RI presidentโs representative, and Council on Legislation representative. He has also served on committees including the RI Membership Growth Committee, The Rotary Foundation Programs Finance Committee, and the International PolioPlus Committee.
De Camargo says he is continually impressed by Rotaryโs global reach. โWith Service Above Self, Rotary has created a unique global identity that is unlike any other I know,โ he says. โI think we all need to remember that we belong to an organization that opens up the world to us.โ
During the start of the COVID pandemic in 2020, de Camargo took on two projects: studying for (and passing) the bar exam โ 38 years after attending law school โ and learning Italian. He also enjoys reading history and biography books and appreciating good wine.
De Camargo has received The Rotary Foundationโs Distinguished Service Award. He and his wife, Denise, are Major Donors and Benefactors of The Rotary Foundation.
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