- Pedro Malan
Pedro Sampaio Malan (b.
Rio de Janeiro ,1943 ) is aBrazil ian economist and former Minister of Finance for Brazil.Early life
Pedro Sampaio Malan was born in 1943 in Petropolis, a resort to the north of Rio de Janeiro. He was educated in a Jesuit school before studying electrical engineering at the
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro .While working as a research associate at Rio's
Institute of Applied Economic Research he first met the U.S. economics teacherAlbert Fishlow , who would in 1973 be his adviser for his doctorate in economics from theUniversity of California at Berkeley. His thesis was "Brazil's Place in the International Economy".Malan continued to live in the USA working for various multilateral agencies until 1993. [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BEK/is_10_6/ai_54760154 Pedro Malan | Latin Trade | Find Articles at BNET.com ] ]
Brazilian Central Bank
Malan returned to Brazil in 1993 at the request of the then finance minister
Fernando Henrique Cardoso , who asked him to head the Central Bank. Malan was President of theBrazilian Central Bank , fromSeptember 9 1993 toDecember 31 1994 .Minister of Finance
Malan was the Minister of Finance for
Brazil , fromJanuary 1 1995 toDecember 31 2002 , during the presidency ofFernando Henrique Cardoso . Along withMarcílio Marques Moreira , Malan worked for theFernando Collor de Mello administration as an official negotiator of the foreign debt of Brazil with theIMF [ [http://www.vermelho.org.br/diario/2002/0723/antero_0723.asp A guerra eleitoral e o mercado na Internet] ] . He is credited with successfully reforming the nation's banking system, saving Brazil from the negative effects of 1997's Asian market crisis. [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BEK/is_10_6/ai_54760154 Pedro Malan | Latin Trade | Find Articles at BNET.com ] ]He was also one of the architects of the
Plano Real .Unibanco
Currently Malan is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the
Unibanco bank, the third largest private bank in Brazil. [ [http://www.ir.unibanco.com/ing/sob/org/index.asp Unibanco - Investor Relations ] ]References
External links
* [http://www.fazenda.gov.br/portugues/institucional/ministros/rep089.asp Official biography] from the Brazilian Ministry of Finance ("Ministério da Fazenda").
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