Arminio Fraga Neto

Arminio Fraga is the founding partner at Gávea Investimentos, an investment management firm he founded in August 2003, and the chair of the Institute for Health Policy Studies (IEPS), which he founded in 2019, and the Social Mobility and Development Institute (IMDS), which he founded in 2020, all based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Mr. Fraga was the Chairman of the Board, BM&F Bovespa, Brazil’s securities, commodities and derivatives exchange, from April 2009 to April 2013, and was the President of the Central Bank of Brazil from March 1999 to December 2002.   

From 1993 until his appointment as Governor of the Central Bank, he was Managing Director of Soros Fund Management in New York.  From 1991 to 1992, he was the Director for international affairs at the Central Bank of Brazil.   Earlier in his career, he held positions with Salomon Brothers and Garantia Investment Bank.

Mr. Fraga has taught as an adjunct at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, the Graduate School of Economics at Getulio Vargas Foundation, the School of International Affairs at Columbia University and the Wharton School.

He is a member of the Group of Thirty and of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the boards of several NGOs.   He was a trustee of Princeton University. Mr. Fraga has published widely in the areas of international finance, macroeconomics and monetary policy.

Mr. Fraga earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 1985, and his BA/MA in Economics from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, in 1981. Published writer for the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, since 2019.