Márcio Holland de Brito

He is a Professor of Economics at the São Paulo School of Economics of Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-EESP), where he coordinates the graduate programs (lato sensu) in Finance and Economics and in Applied Data Science. He was a visiting scholar at Columbia University in the first semester of 2015. From January 2011 to December 2014, he served as Secretary of Economic Policy at the Ministry of Finance (MF/SPE), during which period he was also a member of the Boards of Directors of BNDES and Brasilprev. He was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (20042005), earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Institute of Economics at Unicamp, and held a CNPq Research Productivity Fellowship (level 1) from March 2000 to February 2013. He coordinated the Graduate Program in Economics at FGV-EESP from 2006 to 2010 and was a visiting fellow at the Center for Latin American Studies at UC Berkeley. He also served as Deputy Executive Secretary of ANPEC (National Association of Graduate Centers in Economics).His research focuses on open-economy macroeconomics and international finance, particularly on exchange rate behavior, monetary and exchange rate policy choices, interest rate determination, and various issues related to the interaction between interest rates, exchange rates, and country risk, among others. His current research examines fiscal and tax policies as well as fiscal consolidation programs. He is also a columnist for Broadcast/Agência Estado. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)