10 Facts About Otaviano Canuto

Otaviano Canuto dos Santos Filho was born on 5 January 1956 and is a Brazilian economist.

Otaviano Canuto is the executive director at the executive board of directors of the World Bank Group and its affiliates, the same position he held from 2004 to 2007.

Otaviano Canuto previously served as executive director at the Board of the International Monetary Fund for Brazil, Cabo Verde, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guyana, Haiti, Nicaragua, Panama, Suriname, Timor Leste and Trinidad and Tobago, as vice-president and Head of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management and as Senior Adviser on BRICS Economies at The World Bank, and as the State Secretary for International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance of Brazil.

Otaviano Canuto earned a PhD in economics at the University of Campinas, Campinas-SP, Brazil, where he studied from 1986 to 1991.

Otaviano Canuto began his career as professor, teaching macroeconomics, international economics and the Brazilian economy at The University of Sao Paulo and at the University of Campinas from 1982 to 2002, as well as at the Federal University of Uberlandia from 1982 to 1988.

Otaviano Canuto coordinated the technical contribution of the Ministry of Finance to the Brazilian government's foreign trade negotiations.

In 2004, Otaviano Canuto was appointed executive director at the Board of The World Bank, a position he held until 2007.

Otaviano Canuto joined the Inter-American Development Bank in 2007 as vice-president for Countries where he led the development of relationships between the IDB and borrowing countries, as well as campaigns to formulate the IDB's country and regional strategies.

Otaviano Canuto returned to The World Bank in 2009 as vice-president.

Otaviano Canuto is a frequently contributor to economic-oriented blogs and periodicals including The Huffington Post, VoxEU, Roubini Global Economics, Seeking Alpha, Project Syndicate, and No Se Mancha.