Mr. Nelson Barbosa
Director of Planning and Project Structuring, Brazilian Development Bank
Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and a PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research. He was Minister of Finance and Planning in the Dilma Rousseff government. He also chaired the Board of Directors of Banco do Brasil and was a member of the Board of Directors of Vale and BNDES. Barbosa has also acted as advisor to the Bank’s Presidency between 2005 and 2006. He is a teacher at the School of Public Policy and Government (EPPG) at FGV. As of January 2023, he took over as Director of Planning and Structuring of Projects at the BNDES.