Armínio Fraga Neto (born 20 July 1957, in

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) is a Brazilian economist who was president of the Central Bank of Brazil from 1999 to 2003. From 1993 until his appointment to the Central Bank, he was Managing Director of Soros Fund Management in New York. Since 2001, he has been a member of the influential Washington-based financial advisory body, the

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Education

Fraga received his PhD in economics from Princeton University in 1985.

Career

In 2003, he founded the

based

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Gávea Investimentos The Gávea Group comprises two investment management firms (Gávea Investimentos and Gávea Equity) and one distributor (Gávea DTVM). These are regulated by the Central Bank of Brazil, the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários - CVM (Brazil’s eq ...

. Fraga has been called the

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of Latin America for his skillful handling of Brazilian

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during his tenure as CBB president. Fraga worked for both Fernando Henrique Cardoso governments. In 2009, Fraga served on the High Level Commission on the Modernization of World Bank Group Governance, which – under the leadership of Ernesto Zedillo – conducted an external review of the

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's governance. In October 2010,

was acquired by

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, a subsidiary of

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Other activities

Corporate boards

China Investment Corporation China Investment Corporation (CIC) (Chinese: 中国投资有限责任公司; pinyin: ''zhōngguó tóuzī yǒuxiàn zérèn gōngsī'') is a sovereign wealth fund that manages part of the People's Republic of China's foreign exchange reserves. C ...

, member of the international advisory council (since 2009)

Non-profit organizations

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, member *

(G30), member * Columbia Global Center Rio de Janeiro, member of the advisory board (since 2013) *

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, member of the board of trustees (2018–2019)2018-2019 Board of Trustees

References

External links

Publications
at the National Bureau of Economic Research * * * 1957 births Living people Presidents of the Central Bank of Brazil Brazilian economists Group of Thirty Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro alumni {{Brazil-economist-stub