Name
Date of the interview
Interviewee Bio
Ana Carolina Tosetti Davanço
February 18th, 2021
Economist for the ABC Bankers' Union. A specialist in public management, she defended a thesis on financial inclusion. Tosetti Davanco worked as a parliamentary advisor and in the PT leadership in the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo.
Antoninho Trevisan
April 27th, 2021
Auditor and entrepreneur. Since 2003 he has been a member of CDES, having been responsible for presenting the Payroll deducted credit proposal of the Lula government to the council. In 1983, he founded Trevisan Auditors and Consultants and, in 1998, Trevisan Business School. Between 1986 and 1987, he was Secretary of State Company Control at the Ministry of Planning.
Antônio Carlos Castrucci
February 16th, 2022
Production Engineer. In 2003 he was director of Febraban. Between 1997 and 2000, he held the position of President of ABBC.
Bernard Appy
February 17th, 2021
Economist. Between 2003 and 2005, he was the executive secretary of the Ministry of Finance. Appy signed the exposition of motives for MP 130/2003, which proposed the Payroll deducted credit policy. In 2008 he was a special advisor to President Lula in the preparation of tax and fiscal reform proposals. Between 2010 and 2011, Appy was the director of strategy and planning at BM&F Bovespa. In 2015, he was a co-founder of the Citizenship Center (CCiF).
Fernando Nogueira da Costa
April 7th, 2021
Economics professor at Unicamp. Between 2003 and 2007, he was Vice President of Finance and Capital Markets at Caixa Econômica Federal. During the same period, he was the Executive Director of Febraban. Nogueira da Costa also worked as a consultant for CONTRAF-CUT and Organized the PT Economist's Core in Rio de Janeiro.
Glaucia Campregher
July 25th, 2022
Economist and university professor. Campregher worked in the government secretariat of Rio Grande do Sul during the Olívio Dutra administration, having been one of the individuals responsible for PortoSol microcredit. She taught courses on macroeconomics and the Brazilian economy at Unisinos and UFRGS. Campregher is currently a professor at UFBA.
Jefferson da Conceição
February 2nd, 2021
Economist and university professor. Conceição is coordinator of the Public Policies, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Conjuncture Observatory at USCS. He worked at DIEESE/CUT from 1987 to 2009, serving at the ABC Metalworkers Union DIEESE Subsection until 2004 and at the National CUT DIEESE Subsection until 2009. Conceição was a member of CDES from 2005 to 2010.
José Francisco Siqueira Neto
January 28th, 2021
Lawyer and university professor. Siqueira Neto was a lawyer for the Metal Workers Union from 1983 to 1990, having advised the PT during the Constituent National Assembly proceedings. He then worked as a legal advisor for CUT. From 2003 to 2005, he was technical coordinator of the National Labor Forum. Siqueiro Neto was also a researcher at the International Labor Organization (ILO).
Luis Carlos Hauly
December 16th, 2021
Politician and tax consultant. Hauly completed seven consecutive terms as a congressman from 1991 to 2019. Between 2003 and 2007 he was a federal deputy for the PSDB and vice-leader of the party. Twice he took a leave of absence from the position to assume the position of Secretary of Finance of Paraná. Hauly is an expert in tax policy and works with micro and small businesses.
Luiz Marinho
January 27th, 2021
Politician and unionist. Between 1996 and 2003, Marinho was the national president of CUT. Previously, he held the positions of treasurer, secretary-general and vice-president of the same institution. Between 2003 and 2004, he took over as the president of the Food Security Council, and was responsible for the credit programs for family agriculture. Between 2005 and 2007, Marinho was the Minister of Labor and, between 2007 and 2008, he was the Minister of Social Security.
Marcos Lisboa
February 3rd, 2021
Economist and CEO of Insper. From 2003 to 2005, Lisboa was Secretary of Economic Policy at the Ministry of Finance. From 2006 to 2013, he served as President and Vice President of Itaú-Unibanco Bank. Lisboa is one of the signatories of the ‘Lost Agenda’ document.
Marcos Tresmondi
March 31st, 2021
Geographer and trade unionist. Since 1996, Tresmondi has been an advisor to the Secretary of Administration and Finance of CUT. Among others, he was responsible for the agreements between banks and unionized workers to establish payroll deduction loan contracts.
Miguel José Ribeiro de Oliveira
April 6th, 2021
Economist. Ribeiro de Oliveira is Executive Director of Studies and Research at the National Association of Financial, Administrative and Accounting Executives (ANEFAC).
Otávio Damaso
February 11th, 2022
Economist. Between 2003 and 2008, Damaso was the Deputy Secretary of Economic Policy at the Ministry of Finance. Before taking office in 2003, he was the coordinator of the department for financial affairs. He has been a career employee at the Central Bank since 1998. Damaso is currently the Director of Regulation at the Central Bank, where he has served as the Chairman, and has—since 2007 —been a member of the Board of Directors of the Caixa Econômica Federal.
Roberto Luis Troster
February 16th, 2022
Economist and university professor. Troster was chief economist of Febraban from 2001 to 2006. He was also the chief economist of ABBC and worked as a professor at PUC-SP.
Roberto Pires Messenberg
November 29th, 2021
Economist. In 2003, Pires Messenberg was the Deputy Secretary of Economic Policy in the area of macroeconomics. Currently, he is a Planning and Research Technician/Ipea/ DIEST.
Tarcísio Zimmermann
April 30th, 2021
Politician and sociologist. Zimmerman was a federal deputy for Rio Grande do Sul for three consecutive terms, from 1999 to 2009, always as a member of the PT (Workers' Party), which he helped found. Between 2009 and 2013, he was the mayor of Novo Hamburgo (RS) and, between 2015 and 2019, he held a term as a state deputy in Rio Grande do Sul.
Tarso Genro
April 11th, 2021
Politician and lawyer. In 2003, he was the executive secretary of CDES. Genro was Minister of Education between 2004 and 2005, Minister of Institutional Relations between 2006 and 2007, and Minister of Justice between 2007 and 2010. In 2005, he became the national president of the PT. Previously, Genro was elected councilor in Santa Maria (RS), federal deputy, mayor of Porto Alegre (RS), and governor of Rio Grande do Sul.
Wagner Guerra Jr.
February 7th, 2022
Economist. In 2003, Guerra Jr. was the Deputy Secretary of Economic Policy in the area of microeconomics. He is a career employee of the Central Bank. Guerra was Deputy Secretary of Macroeconomic Policy during the Fernando Henrique Cardoso administration.
William Thomazzi Salasar
April 7th, 2022
Journalist. Thomazzi Salasar has been the director of communication at Febraban since 2006. Between 1982 and 2002, he was the assistant editor of finance at the newspaper Gazeta Mercantil. He has also worked at the O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper and at the Exame magazine.