Otaviano Canuto

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. He previously served as executive director at the Board of the International Monetary Fund (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, and as the State Secretary for International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance of Brazil (2002 - 2003).