Luciano Siani Pires

Biography

Mr. Luciano Siani Pires has served as Chief Financial Officer at Vale S.A. since August 1, 2012. From 2008 to July 2012, he held the positions of global director of Strategic Planning and global director of Human Resources and Governance at the Company. He has professional experience in the areas of finance, capital markets and strategic planning. In 2007 and 2008, he was chief of Staff and executive secretary to the president at Brazil's National Development Bank (BNDES), where he previously worked from 2005 and 2006 as chief of the Holding Management Department (Capital Markets), and head of the Export Finance Department in 2001 and 2002. Also at BNDES, between 1992 and 1999 he held positions in the areas of financial planning, investor relations and capital markets. For two years, from 2003 to 2005, he worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Company, focusing on the basic materials sector. He has served on the boards of Tele Norte Leste (Telemar), Suzano Bahia Sul Papel e Celulose, and Vale/Valepar. He has also taught for MBA programs at COPPEAD at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Catolica do Rio de Janeiro and an MBA, with a Finance specialization, from the Stern School of Business, New York University.

Research Interest

Finance Department