The Evaluation, Planning, Energy and Lottery Secretariat is responsible for the governance of prizes and sweepstakes, carrying out lottery regulation, commercial promotion, and early capture of popular savings, with a view to defending competition. In addition, at this time it plays a key role in the regulation of sports betting that has been legalized in Brazil since the end of 2018.
The changes occur days after the official appointment of Bruno Funchal as special secretary of Finance, in place of Waldery Rodrigues. The exchange took place after a process of wear and tear on the economic team in the midst of negotiations on the 2021 Budget.
Guimarães is a career servant at the Central Bank (BC) and holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Brasília. He joined the Ministry of Finance in August 2016 and remained on the team under the format of the Ministry of Economy. He has been deputy secretary since August 2016.
After leaving office, Calhman is also a BC employee and was on the team since August 2016, when he served as Under Secretary for Economic Monitoring. In January 2019, he took over the Secretariat for Microeconomic Policy and Infrastructure Financing of the Policy Secretariat.
New deputy secretary, Gildenora is a federal auditor for Finance and Treasury Control, an accountant and a specialist in public administration. She served as AGU's general secretary of administration between 2010 and 2015, when she took over the undersecretary of Public Accounting.
The Treasury's accounting area will be under the command of the current general accounting coordinator of the Union, Heriberto Henrique Vilela do Nascimento, who is also a federal auditor for Finance and Control. He is an accountant, specialist in public accounting and public management, with 14 years of experience in the area.
Source: GMB
