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EXCLUSIVE
Alexandre Tombini
Central Bank of Brazil
Governor
By Susan Berger
Marketing Editor / Special Assignment
New York / San Francisco / Hong Kong / London / Tokyo / Rome / Toronto
Alexandre Tombini was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil in
1963. He has been Governor of the Central Bank of Brazil
since January 2011 when he replaced Henrique Meirelles,
Brazil’s longest serving central bank Governor.
After receiving a bachelor degree in economics from the
University of Brasilia, Mr. Tombini earned a Ph.D. in
economics at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign,
in the USA.
Mr. Tombini has held various positions within the Finance
Ministry and the cabinet office, including as Coordinator
of International Analysis, General Co-ordinator of Foreign
Affairs and Special Advisor to the Foreign Trade Chamber.
He was Visiting Professor in the Department of Economics
at the University of Brasilia from 1993 to 1994.
In 1995 Mr. Tombini joined the central bank and was
involved in the formulation of Brazil’s inflation-targeting
system.
From 2001 until 2005, Mr. Tombini served as Special
Advisor to the Executive Director and Member of the
Executive Board of Directors at the Brazilian Representative
office of the International Monetary Fund in Washington,
D.C.
Mr. Tombini presided over the foreign affairs and special
studies departments at the central bank, and from 2006 to
2010 he was the Deputy Governor for Financial System
Regulation and Organization.
Like other emerging markets, Brazil has fared better than
developed countries in the global financial crisis. Mr.
Tombini will try to contain inflation while continuing to
encourage economic growth.
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