Aloizio Mercadante, the future president of the BNDES under Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, announced the names of four directors who will occupy positions on the board of directors of the development bank. They are: Alexandre Abreu, former president of Banco do Brasil and former president of Banco Original, José Gordon, from Embrapii, Natalia Dias, from Standard Bank, and Luciana Costa, from Natixis. Currently, the BNDES has only one director.
The announcement was made at a lunch with businessmen from Esfera Brasil this Wednesday (21st), in São Paulo, in a meeting seen as an attempt to iron out rough spots after the negative repercussions with which the market received Mercadante’s nomination last week. In all, there should be nine directors.
See who are the new directors announced
Joseph Louis Gordon: doctor in economics from IE/UFRJ, he is currently the president of Embrapii. He led the Associação Brasileira de Desenvolvimento (ABDE) which represents development banks. He was director of Embrapii and worked at MCTI, MEC and CNI.
Natalia Dias: has almost 30 years of experience in the investment banking area. She has served as CEO of Standard Bank Brasil since 2018, and as Director of Energy and Infrastructure at Standard Bank Group for Latin America since 2012. Before Standard Bank, she held leadership positions in the investment banking area at institutions such as JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, ING Bank and Banif Investment Banking. Natalia has a degree in Public Administration from FGV (Fundação Getulio Vargas) and a specialization in finance from the Amsterdam Institut of Finance.
Luciana Costa: president in Brazil of Banco Français de Investimentos Natixis, specializes in financing large projects, structured finance, liability management, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and sustainable finance. She has been at Natixis since 2015 and has worked at Banco Standard de Investimentos, Banco Real ABN AMRO, Citibank, Bank Boston and Unibanco. She holds a BA in Economics from Unicamp and a Master’s from FGV.
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