Pedro Malan

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Pedro Sampaio Malan (b. Rio de Janeiro, 1943) is a Brazilian economist and former Minister of Finance for Brazil.

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[edit] 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 teacher Albert Fishlow, who would in 1973 be his adviser for his doctorate in economics from the University 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.[1]

[edit] 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 the Brazilian Central Bank, from September 9, 1993 to December 31, 1994.

[edit] Minister of Finance

Malan was the Minister of Finance for Brazil, from January 1, 1995 to December 31, 2002, during the presidency of Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Along with Marcílio Marques Moreira, Malan worked for the Fernando Collor de Mello administration as an official negotiator of the foreign debt of Brazil with the IMF [2]. He is credited with successfully reforming the nation's banking system, saving Brazil from the negative effects of 1997's Asian market crisis.[3]

He was also one of the architects of the Plano Real.

[edit] Unibanco

Currently Malan is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Unibanco bank, the third largest private bank in Brazil.[4]


[edit] References

  1. ^ Pedro Malan | Latin Trade | Find Articles at BNET.com
  2. ^ A guerra eleitoral e o mercado na Internet
  3. ^ Pedro Malan | Latin Trade | Find Articles at BNET.com
  4. ^ Unibanco - Investor Relations

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Preceded by
Fernando Henrique Cardoso		 Ministry of Finance (Brazil)
January 1, 1995 - December 31, 2002		 Succeeded by
Antonio Palocci
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