Appointed to BC, Galípolo is exonerated from the Ministry of Finance

Appointed to take over the Monetary Policy Directorate of the Central Bank (BC), Gabriel Galípolo was exonerated this Tuesday (20) from the role of executive secretary of the Ministry of Finance. Former adviser to Fernando Haddad in the city of São Paulo and former director of WhatsApp in Brazil, lawyer Dario Durigan assumes the position, the second most important in the folder.

Signed by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the decree with the exoneration of Gallípolo and the appointment of Durigan was published in this Tuesday’s edition (20) of Official Diary of the Union. Lula signed the replacement before embarking on his official trip to Italy and France.

On the 27th, Galípolo will be examined by the Senate Economic Affairs Committee (CAE). The commission will also listen to Ailton Aquino, a BC career official appointed to the institution’s Supervisory Board.

The Ministry of Finance informed that, in the beginning of the afternoon, the Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, thanked Galípolo for his work and welcomed Durigan. The folder released a photo in which the two appear accompanied by Haddad and all the secretaries and special advisors in the folder.

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Lawyer graduated from the University of São Paulo (USP) and Master in Law and Legal Research from the University of Brasília (UnB), Durigan was Haddad’s special advisor at the São Paulo City Hall in 2015 and 2016. From 2017 to 2020, he was a senior lawyer at Union Legal Consultancy in São Paulo. At the beginning of the year, he was Director of Public Policies for WhatsApp in Brazil and participated in the negotiations for the Bill of Rights fake news (fake news) in the National Congress.

Previously, Durigan was project coordinator at the Department of Strategic Management of the Attorney General’s Office (AGU) from March 2010 to August 2011. He was then advisor to the Sub-Command for Legal Affairs of the Civil House of the Presidency of the Republic from 2011 to 2015 , in the government of Dilma Rousseff.