Background
Pedro Sampaio Malan was born in 1943 in Petropolis, a town named in honor of Dom Pedro II to the north of Rio de Janeiro.
Pedro Sampaio Malan was born in 1943 in Petropolis, a town named in honor of Dom Pedro II to the north of Rio de Janeiro.
Saint Ignatius School, Rio de Janeiro, Polytechnic School of Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, School of Economics and University of California, Berkeley.
Is father of journalist and correspondent Cecília Malan, currently standing at Rede Globo. His thesis was Brazil"s Place in the International Economy. Malan continued to live in the United States of America working for various multilateral agencies until 1993.
Malan returned to Brazil in 1993 at the request of the then finance minister Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who asked him to head the Central Bank.
Malan was President of the, from September 9, 1993 to December 31, 1994. Malan was the for Brazil, from January 1, 1995 to December 31, 2002, during the presidency of Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
Along with Marcílio Marques Moreira, Malan worked for the Fernando Collor de Mello administration as an official negotiator of the foreign debt of Brazil with the International Monetary Fund. He is credited with successfully reforming the nation"s banking system, saving Brazil from the negative effects of 1997"s Asian market crisis.
He was also one of the architects of the Plano Real.
Malan is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the bank, the third largest private bank in Brazil.
Married 1st Ana Maria Toledo Piza Rudge. Married 2nd Catarina Gontijo Souza Lima in 1980.