{"id":631,"date":"2023-04-22T06:10:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T09:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pauloguedes.org\/about\/"},"modified":"2024-04-12T15:22:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T18:22:13","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pauloguedes.org\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Paulo Guedes is economist and the former Minister of Economy of the Federal Republic of Brazil, which he served during the years from 2019 to 2022<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\"My path in the financial market, in education \u2013 and, more recently, in the government as Minister of Economy \u2013 is the expression of my purpose to foster the sustainable growth of our country\"\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Mr. Guedes oversaw one of the world\u2019s largest economies during the most challenging time of the Great Pandemic and Ukraine war, deploying structural reforms and highly effective public policies against supply chain disruptions and demand collapse. Together, these structural reforms and emergency measures delivered higher economic growth coupled with a lower inflation rate than most G20 countries, all while attaining fiscal balance and reducing debt to GDP ratio to lower pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>

Structural reforms spearheaded by Paulo Guedes include Social Security, privatizations, Central Bank independence, new regulatory frameworks for Sanitation, Oil & Natural Gas, Cabotage, Green Energy Transition, International Tax Treaties, Mercosul Proposal for European Union agreement and Brazil\u2019s advance on OECD accession. Emergency public policies to mitigate poverty, unemployment and economic shutdown during the pandemic and Ukraine war include highly successful minimum income emergency transfers, job preservation grants and sector credit programs.<\/p>

Brazil also reached further international relevance under Mr. Guedes\u2019s leadership, having appointed Brazilians as heads of the two most important regional banks of the world, IDB and NDB for the first time in the country\u2019s history.<\/p>

Paulo Guedes holds a PhD in Economics from University of Chicago and has earned a very distinguished career as an entrepreneur in both, Brazil\u2019s financial markets, as well as the country\u2019s education sector prior to his public service.<\/p>

Mr. Guedes was co-founder of Banco Pactual, Brazil\u2019s largest investment bank, and JGP Hedge Fund, one of the first in the country. He was the founder, chairman and CEO of BR Investimentos (later Bozano Investimentos, currently Crescera Private Equity, specialist in Education and Health).<\/p>

Mr. Guedes is a former professor at the Vargas Foundation, Catholic University and Applied and Pure Mathematics Institute. He was also the founder, CEO and majority shareholder of IBMEC, a network of leading Business Schools, well known for the innovations introduced in the Education sector. He pioneered Executive MBAs in Brazil, founded the K-12 network Abril Education and a collection of Medical Schools currently listed at the NASDAQ as Afya. He was also Advisor on some of the country\u2019s largest IPOs including K-12 SEB and higher-education institution, Anima.<\/p>

Paulo Guedes was a founder of Millenium Institute, a think tank to stand for democracy, the rule of law and a market economy in Brazil. For over 30 years prior to his role in the public sector, Mr. Guedes contributed opinion articles on the topics of economics and politics to the country\u2019s most influential newspapers (Folha de S\u00e3o Paulo, O Globo) and magazines\u00a0(Exame,\u00a0\u00c9poca).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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