Luciano Siani

Biography

Luciano Siani Pires was appointed Vale’s Chief Financial Officer in August 2012, being also responsible for the areas of Procurement and Information Technology. Before this, 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 extensive 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 Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (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. Luciano Siani 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 the Instituto de PósGraduação e Pesquisa em Administração (Institute of Postgraduate Studies and Research in Administration – COPPEAD) at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ). Luciano Siani Pires has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro (Pontifical Catholic University - PUCRJ) and a MBA, with a Finance specialization, from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University.

Research Interest

Business and Management