Pedro Guimarães


Pedro Guimarães is a Brazilian economist. He is the current chairman of Caixa Econômica Federal since 2018 and former partner of the investment bank Brasil Plural.

Early life

He was born in Rio de Janeiro. He earned Pedro Guimarães a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rochester, Master in Economics from Fundação Getúlio Vargas of Rio de Janeiro and Bachelor of Economics from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.

Career

He specialized in privatizations in the U.S. and in Brazil and signaled that the bank expects to save R$3,5 billion in two years and revised deals to achieve this goal.
He was a member of the Board of Directors of Terra Brasis Resseguros and Eólicas do Sul.
He was an advisor for the Privatization programme in the Banespa, the oldest state bank of São Paulo.