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Brazilian economist (born 1956)

Otaviano Canuto dos Santos Filho (born 5 January 1956) is a Brazilian economist. He is the executive director at the executive board of directors of the World Bank Group and its affiliates, the same position he held from 2004 to 2007.^[1] He previously served as executive director at the Board of the International Monetary Fund^[2] (IMF) for Brazil, Cabo Verde, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guyana, Haiti, Nicaragua, Panama, Suriname, Timor Leste and Trinidad and Tobago, as vice-president and Head of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) and as Senior Adviser on BRICS Economies at The World Bank,^[3] and as the State Secretary for International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance of Brazil (2002 - 2003).^[4]

Awards,Scholarships and honours

Education

Canuto obtained a bachelor's degree in economics from the Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil, where he studied from 1973 to 1