Danilo Palermo is a Senior Financial Sector Specialist in the Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Global Practice at the World Bank Group, where he assists countries in developing and implementing bank resolution frameworks and deposit guarantee schemes. He is also the World Bank’s representative at the International Association of Deposit Insurers (IADI) and the deputy-representative at the Financial Stability Board’s Resolution Steering Group.
Before joining the World Bank, Danilo was the deputy-head of the bank resolution department at the Central Bank of Brazil, where he led the teams in charge of developing the new resolution law and regulating the deposit guarantee schemes. Before that, he was a legal practitioner at Pinheiro Neto Advogados, in Brazil, in the fields of banking and corporate law. He holds an A.B. from the Sao Paulo State University (Brazil) and an LL.M. from Leiden University (The Netherlands).