Ilan Goldfajn

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Ilan Goldfajn (born March 12, 1966 in Haifa ) is an Israeli - Brazilian economist and university professor. From June 9, 2016 to February 28, 2019, he was President of the Central Bank of Brazil .

Life

Ilan Goldfajn, born in Haifa, first attended the Colégio Israelita Brasileiro A. Liessin in Rio de Janeiro . He graduated in 1988 with a degree in economics from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), which was followed by a master's degree in 1991 from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). In 1995 he received his Ph.D. (PhD) in On Public Debt and Exchange Rate from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

His academic and political career began in 1995 when he became an assistant professor at Brandeis University in Waltham , Massachusetts. From 1996 to January 1999, he held a position as an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). From February 1999 to April 2009 he was Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Economics at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. He has held advisory positions at the World Bank , the IMF, international and Brazilian banks. From September 2000 to July 2003 he was Director of Economic Policy at the Brazilian Central Bank. He was chief economist and partner of Itaú Unibanco from April 2009 to May 2016 , before the Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles , who had worked with him a few years earlier, appointed him head of the central bank within the new government of Michel Temer on May 12, 2016 . On June 9, 2016, he replaced his predecessor Alexandre Tombini .

He was also a member of the subsequent cabinet of the new President Jair Bolsonaro from January 1, 2019 to February 28, 2019, before being replaced by Roberto de Oliveira Campos Neto .

Goldfajn is faced with the economic crisis in Brazil from 2014 . In March 2017, he said that "lowering the inflation rate is already widespread in the economy".

Fonts (selection)

In addition to his scientific contributions, Goldfajn also wrote for the O Estado de São Paulo .

  • with Taimur Baig: Financial market contagion in the Asian crisis. In: International Monetary Fund: IMF staff papers , Volume 46, June 1, 1999, No. 2, pp. 167–195.
  • with Eliana Cardoso: Capital flows to Brazil. The endogeneity of capital controls. In: International Monetary Fund: IMF staff papers , Volume 45, March 1, 1998, No. 1, pp. 161–202.
  • with Gino Olivares: Can flexible exchange rates still “work” in financially open economies? United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Center for International Development, Harvard University. United Nations, New York / Geneva 2001.
  • Há razões para duvidar de que a dívida pública é sustentável? (= Notas Técnicas do Banco Central do Brasil ; 25). Brasília July 2002. ISSN  1519-7212 .
  • with Poonam Gupta: Does monetary policy stabilize the exchange rate following a currency crisis? In: International Monetary Fund: IMF staff papers , Volume 50, January 1, 2003, No. 1, pp. 90–114.
  • with Eduardo Refinetti Guardia: Fiscal Rules and Debt Sustainability in Brazil. (= Notas Técnicas do Banco Central do Brasil ; 39). Brasília July 2003. ISSN  1677-4205 .
  • with André Minella, Paulo Freitas, Marcelo Kfoury Muinhos: Inflation targeting in Brazil: Constructing credibility under exchange rate volatility. (= Banco Central do Brasil: Working Paper Series ; 77). Brasília July 2003. ISSN  1518-3548 .
  • with Luis Felipe Céspedes, Phil Lowe, Rodrigo Valdés: Policy responses to external shocks: The experience of Australia, Brazil and Chile. In: Banco Central do Chile: Economía Chilena , Volume 8, No. 2, August 2005.
  • Francesco Giavazzi, Ilan Goldfajn, Santiago Herrera (Eds.): Inflation targeting, debt and the Brazilian experience, 1999 to 2003. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 2005, ISBN 0-262-27378-0 .
  • with André Minella: Capital Flows and Controls in Brazil: What Have We Leamed? In: Sebastian Edwards: Capital controls and capital flows in emerging economies. Chicago University Press, 2007, ISBN 0-226-18497-8 , pp. 349-420.

Web links

Commons : Ilan Goldfajn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bárbara Nascimento, Ana Paula Ribeiro, Lucianne Carneiro, Rennan Setti: Ilan Goldfajn: excelência acadêmica e tranquilidade no comando do BC. In: O Globo, May 13, 2016. Retrieved March 9, 2017 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ Chief economist of the private bank becomes Brazil's new central bank chief. In: Handelsblatt from May 17, 2016. Retrieved March 9, 2017.
  3. ↑ Senado aprova Roberto Campos Neto como novo presidente do BC. February 26, 2019, accessed April 25, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  4. ↑ Adriana Fernandes, Irány Tereza Cristina Canas: Queda because inflação já está espalhada na economia, diz presidente do BC. In: O Estado de São Paulo, March 9, 2017. Retrieved March 9, 2017 (Portuguese).
  5. ↑ Profile Ilan Goldfajn, Most recent publications. Retrieved March 9, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Goldfajn, Ilan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli-Brazilian economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Haifa , Israel