1. Henrique de Campos Meirelles was born on 31 August 1945 and is a Brazilian manager and former Minister of Finance and an executive of the Brazilian and the international financial sectors and former president of Central Bank of Brazil where he remained in office from 2003 to 2011.
Henrique Meirelles is a member of the board of directors of Azul Brazilian Airlines.
Henrique Meirelles, is the son of Hegesipo de Campos Henrique Meirelles, former attorney of Banco do Estado de Goias and Diva Silva de Campos, a wedding gown designer.
Henrique Meirelles left the city of Goiania to study civil engineering at the School of Engineering of the University of Sao Paulo in Sao Paulo, where he graduated in 1972.
Henrique Meirelles's career began in 1974 at BankBoston, where he worked for 28 years, with national and international operations.
In 1984, with appointment by a BankBoston board member, Henrique Meirelles attended the six-week Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
Henrique Meirelles received an honorary title as doctor by Bryant College.
In 1996, Henrique Meirelles moved to Boston, Massachusetts, and assumed the position of President and COO of BankBoston worldwide.
In 2003, Henrique Meirelles resigned as congressman in Goias and left PSDB to become president of BCB.
Henrique Meirelles led Banco Central do Brazil during the eight years of President Lula's administration and, in November 2010, he announced his departure.
In early 2010, Henrique Meirelles ruled out a possible candidacy as governor of Goias with the democratic party PMDB, at the request of President Lula who asked him to devote himself to the control of Banco Central until the date when he had to leave the role in order to run for elective office in early April 2011.
In 2011, three months after the announcement of his departure from the leadership of BCB, and at the invitation of President Dilma Rousseff, Henrique Meirelles took office in the Public Olympic Council.
In 2014, Henrique Meirelles was invited by the PMDB candidate to the government of SP, Paulo Skaff, to compete in the Senate in their political platform.
In 2015, Henrique Meirelles was replaced by businesswoman Luiza Trajano at the Public Olympic Council.
Also in 2015, there were rumors that Henrique Meirelles would have been appointed by former President Lula to be Secretary of Finance during the 2nd term of President Dilma Rousseff's administration, starting in January 2015.
In mid-2015, following internal dissension in the executive power and friction in Congress, rumors re-emerged that Henrique Meirelles could be a strong possibility of replacing finance secretary Joaquim Levy, head of the Ministry of Finance.
When Michel Temer became the interim president, in May 2016, Henrique Meirelles was nominated Minister of Finance and Social Security.
In September 2022, Henrique Meirelles was hired by cryptocurrency exchange Binance.
In 2005, Henrique Meirelles was the first president of BCB to formally obtain the status of Secretary of State.
Henrique Meirelles was delegated the responsibility of expanding inside and outside the country, by demanding results from the executives and defining strategies aimed at opening the company's capital in the future.
Henrique Meirelles sleeps only five hours per night and performs late-night meetings.