Fernando Haddad

Fernando Haddad
Haddad in 2021
Ex-Ministro das finanças
Assumed office
1 January 2023 15 outubro 2024
PresidentLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Preceded byPaulo Guedes (as Minister of Economics)
Mayor of São Paulo
In office
1 January 2013 – 31 December 2016
Vice MayorNádia Campeão
Preceded byGilberto Kassab
Succeeded byJoão Doria
Minister of Education
In office
29 July 2005 – 24 January 2012
President
Preceded byTarso Genro
Succeeded byAloizio Mercadante
Personal details
Born (1963-01-25) 25 January 1963
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Political partyPT (1983–present)
Spouse(s)
Ana Estela Haddad
​
(m. 1988)​
Children2
Alma materUniversity of São Paulo (LL.B., M.Ec, Ph.D.)

Fernando Haddad (born 25 January 1960) is a Brazilian academic and politician who is the Minister of Finance since 2023. He was Mayor of São Paulo, Brazil's largest city,[1] from 2013 to 2017.[2] He was the Minister of Education from 2005 to 2012 in the cabinets of Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff.[3]

Haddad was the Workers' Party candidate for President in the 2018 elections, replacing former president Lula, whose candidacy was banned by the Superior Electoral Court under the Clean Slate law.[2] He lost the second round of the election on 28 October 2018 to Jair Bolsonaro.

References

  1. ↑ "Haddad supera Serra, e PT volta a governar São Paulo após oito anos". UOL (in Portuguese). São Paulo. 28 October 2012. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
  2. 1 2 "Brazil's da Silva Steps Aside, Names Haddad as Replacement Candidate".
  3. ↑ "In Lula's footsteps: Brazil's presidential campaign". The Economist. Vol. 396, no. 8689. 1 July 2010. p. 50. Retrieved 7 July 2010.

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