Frederico is the Manager of the Jobs and Growth Unit at the World Bank’s Economic Policy Global Department. Before this role, he served as Practice Manager for the Global Macroeconomics and Debt unit within the Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment Global Practice.
Previously, Frederico was the Lead Country Economist for Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, and São Tomé and Príncipe. He has also served as Lead Economist for Indonesia and, earlier, as Senior Economist for India (based in New Delhi) and Malaysia (based in Bangkok). His past assignments also included work on Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar.
Frederico joined the World Bank in 2006 in the Economic Policy and Debt department, where he worked on debt relief for poor countries, capacity building for debt management, and debt sustainability analyses. During that time, Frederico enjoyed working with debt managers in many African countries, including the Central African Republic, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mozambique, and São Tomé e Príncipe.
Prior to joining the World Bank, Frederico worked on emerging-market debt with investment bank Bear Stearns in New York, issuing bonds for emerging-market governments and companies, and provided corporate-finance advisory services to Latin American and European firms.
A native of Brazil, Frederico holds an MA and a PhD in political economy from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and a BA in Economics and International Studies from Yale University.
