Otaviano Canuto
Short biography:
Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network
Otaviano Canuto is Vice President and Head of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network, a division of more than 700 economists and other professionals working on economic policy, poverty
reduction, and analytic work for the World Bank’s client countries. He took
up his position on May 4, 2009, after serving as the Vice President for
Countries at the Inter-American Development Bank since June 2007.
Dr. Canuto provides strategic leadership and direction to Regional PREM
units as well as groups working on economic policy formulation in the area
of growth and poverty, debt, trade, gender, and public sector management
and governance. He is also involved in managing the Bank’s overall
interactions with key partner institutions including the IMF, the OECD and
regional development banks.
Previous assignments:
Dr. Canuto was Executive Director at the Board of
the World Bank in 2004-2007. He also served in the Brazilian Ministry of
Finance, where he was Secretary for International Affairs. He was Professor
of Economics at the University of São Paulo and University of Campinas
(UNICAMP) in Brazil.
Education:
Dr. Canuto holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University of
Campinas and a M.A. from Concordia University in Montreal. He has written
extensively on development economics and growth.
Publications:
He has lectured and written widely on economic growth,
financial crisis management, and regional development. His recent
published work has dealt with fi nancial crisis and economic growth in Latin
America. He has published more than 70 articles in economic journals
and books in English, Spanish and Portuguese, and has spoken often on
development policy and global economic issues.
Languages:
He speaks Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.
See his presentation on the IIPF Congress 2009
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