The former Minister of Economy and Employment of Portugal Álvaro Santos Pereira was appointed the new chief economist of the OECD, replacing the British Clare Lombardelli, the institution announced this Thursday.
This economist, who also has Canadian nationality, will take up his new position on June 1, when “will pilot economic analysis and advise member countries to optimize the quality of economic development and growth in the wake of the covid pandemic“, explained this Thursday the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in a statement.
Santos Pereira, trained at the universities of Coimbra, Exeter and Simon Fraser in Burnaby, joined the government of the conservative Pedro Passos Coelho between June 2011 and July 2013, and in 2014 he was elected director of national studies at the OECD, an organization in the who held other positions.
Source: Gestion
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