Register online

Otaviano Canuto

 

Otaviano Canuto

 

 

Otaviano Canuto

Vice President, World Bank

 

Otaviano Canuto is Vice President and Head of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network, a division of more than 700 economists and other professionals working on economic policy, poverty reduction, and analytic work for the World Bank’s client countries.  He took up his position in May 2009, after serving as the Vice President for Countries at the Inter-American Development Bank since June 2007.   Dr. Canuto provides strategic leadership and direction on economic policy formulation in the area of growth and poverty, debt, trade, gender, and public sector management and governance.  He is involved in managing the Bank’s overall interactions with key partner institutions including the IMF, the OECD and regional development banks.   He has lectured and written widely on economic growth, financial crisis management, and regional development, with recent work on financial crisis and economic growth in Latin America.  He speaks Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.

 

   

.