Market executive and career server are indicated for BC directorate

The president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) schooled an executive of the financial market and a black career official of the Central Bank for the duas vagas abertas in the diretoria of the monetary authority.

Lula agreed with the suggestions made by the Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, and will present the names to the Federal Senate.

He will indicate Rodolfo Fróes for the monetary policy directorate and Rodrigo Monteiro for the auditing directorate of BC.

Graduated in Administration at PUC Rio, Fróes has long experience in the market, including passages at Bank of America and at Ritchie Capital Management.

He also joined the board of directors of Banco Fator together with the current secretary-executive of the Ministry of Finance, Gabriel Galípolo, who presided over the board.

His choice must face the fear of the market, which feared Lula’s choice of a heterodox economist, with a less liberal profile, not the style of André Lara Resende, whose texts and statements have called for the president’s attention.

For the audit area, Lula will follow tradition and indicate a server of his own BC, in the case of Monteiro. He is black, or that confers a character of racial diversity on the board of the monetary institution. His choice was held in the bank.

The technical and administrative body of the bank was concerned about losing the indication for some market name.

“We parabenize the government and blame that it was a correct indication, because it is a career official who has worked for long years in the audit area,” he affirmed. Fabio Faiadpresident of the national union of servers of BC.

Faiad also declared support for the new decree, assigned in this terça-feira by Lula, which establishes a minimum of 30% of black commissioners.

For him, at the indication of Rodrigo Monteiro Follow the same line and brand plurality.