Miriam Belchior will play a central role in the next government.
She will be the executive secretary of the Civil House and will coordinate programs to resume investments.
(Reuters)- Brazil's future Chief of Staff, Rui Costa, announced on Thursday that former Planning Minister and former president of Caixa Econômica Federal, Miriam Belchior, will be his executive secretary, and that the current Secretary of Infrastructure of Bahia, Marcus Cavalcanti, will head the Special Secretariat of the Partnerships and Investments Program (PPI).
In a statement, Costa, whose term as governor of Bahia ends on December 31, also said that the PPI, which is currently under the Ministry of Economy, will be transferred to the Civil House in the government of President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Miriam Belchior headed the Planning Ministry during Dilma Rousseff's first term, between 2011 and 2014, and during Rousseff's second term she took over the leadership of Caixa Econômica Federal (a Brazilian state-owned bank). Before that, during Lula's first two terms -- from 2003 to 2010 -- she worked in the Civil House and was responsible for the coordination and monitoring of the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC).
Cavalcanti has served as Bahia's Infrastructure Secretary since 2014 and is a civil servant in the Bahia state government. He currently chairs the board of directors of Bahiagás.
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