Mário Mesquita

Chief Economist
Itau

Biography

Dr. Mario Mesquita is Chief Economist at Itaú Unibanco, Brazil’s largest private-sector bank. He holds a doctorate degree in Economics from Oxford University. Mario has served as a senior partner at Banco Brasil Plural, a Deputy Governor for the Central Bank of Brazil, the Chief Economist at ABN AMRO Brazil and LATAM, the Economics Director at FEBRABAN (the Brazilian Bankers Federation) and an economist for the IMF.

Speaker at these events:

Bonds & Loans Latin America 2020 - Virtual Conference

• How much of the COVID-induced economic pressure is temporary and how much has exposed Brazil’s existing structural weaknesses?