Pablo Pereira dos Santos currently serves as Manager of the IDB's Infrastructure and Environment Sector.
Previously he acted as Undersecretary for Regulation and Infrastructure at the Ministry of Finance of Brazil. He was also a Board Member of the Banco do Brasil until October 2015.
From October 2013 to February 2015 he served as Secretary for Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Finance. He joined the Ministry of Finance in 1998 and has been a staff member of the National Treasury since 2001.
Over the past seventeen years Mr. Pereira dos Santos worked in different positions in the Brazilian Government, mostly engaged in infrastructure finance and development, as well as regulatory issues related to it.
Since then he has acquired relevant experience in policy-making regarding infrastructure, capital markets development, housing finance and banking. Early in his carrier he served as an international economics and finance analyst and was involved in international economic dialogues with multilateral institutions and other countries.
Mr. Pereira dos Santos holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration (MPA) from Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and a BA in Economics from the University of Brasilia.