Pedro Moreira Salles

Biography

He is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of Itaú Unibanco Holding ; partner and co-president of Cambuhy Investimentos, TOTVS board member and member of the Board of Directors of Falconi Consultores Associados. Pedro is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Osesp Foundation and a member of the Deliberative Council of INSPER . During his childhood, between the years of 64 to 68, he lived and studied in Paris, in the Saint-Louis College of Gonzague. Upon returning to Rio de Janeiro , he finished elementary and high school in the Franco-Brazilian High School, in the Laranjeirasneighborhood . He joined the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC) in Rio de Janeiro in 1977, where he attended the Faculty of Economics for a year, then transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles. He graduated in 1981 and moved to the US East Coast , where he enrolled in the Yale International Relations course in Connecticut . He returned to Brazil in 1982, when he started working in the family business. In 1983, he moved to São Paulo and was invited to take over the management of an agricultural business of the group, Cambuhy Agrícola, in Matão , in the interior of the State, where he remained until 1985. In 1986, together with his brother Fernando Moreira Salles , began to manage the holding company of the group Moreira Salles. In 1989, he is a member of Unibanco's Board of Directors , which he presided over from 1997 to 2004. In 2004 he assumed the presidency of the bank, where he remains until 2008, the year of the merger with Itaú . After the merger, he became chairman of Itaú Unibanco's Board of Directors, a position he currently holds.

Research Interest

Banking,Finance