Alexandre Ywata: new Special Secretary for Productivity

Economy Minister Paulo Guedes appointed Alexandre Ywata on Tuesday (Jul. 6) as the new Special Secretary for Productivity and Competitiveness of the ministry.

Ywata will replace Daniella Marques Consentino, who took office as Head of Caixa Econômica Federal. He was Deputy Secretary for Economic Law at the Secretariat for Economic Policy of the Ministry of Economy, and since February this year, he has been Secretary for Infrastructure Development.

The new Secretary has a master's degree in statistics from the University of Brasília (UnB), and a PhD also in statistics from Northwestern University, in the United States. Ywata is a career agent at the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA), where he was Deputy President and Director of Regional, Urban and Environmental Policies. He also worked at Caixa Econômica Federal as President of Caixa Participações, and held the vice-presidencies of Risks and Internal Controls and Investment Funds.

The Special Secretariat for Productivity, Employment, and Competitiveness is responsible for professional qualification programs, and for the elaboration of policies that improve economic productivity. In the coming months, it intends to launch a monitoring panel of private investments, generated by concessions and privatizations.

Besides publishing studies on the effects of policies and reforms promoted by the Brazilian government, the Secretariat for Economic Policy prepares the Ministry of Economy's official forecasts for economic variables such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and inflation. These estimates are used in the preparation of the country´s Budget.