Alexandre Messa Peixoto da Silva, appointed this Wednesday (14) as secretary of Economic Monitoring of the Special Secretariat for Productivity and Competitiveness, was deputy secretary of Advocacy for Competition and Competitiveness of the Ministry of Economy.
The Undersecretariat for Betting and Commercial Promotion is responsible for regulating lotteries and betting and will be under the command of Messa. The entity is finalizing the process of regulating sports betting in Brazil. In the last three months, the unit has expressed itself on the final studies so that the activity is approved in the shortest possible time.
What the market expects is that, under the command of the new secretary, the process will finally finish and, as soon as the electoral process passes, the betting regulations will be approved and that all the documentation will be made available to the sector.
Alexandre Messa Peixoto da Silva was Head of Economic Advisory for the Special Secretariat for Productivity, Employment and Competitiveness (SEPEC) between January and May 2019, and Head of Economic Advisory for the Executive Secretariat of the Foreign Trade Chamber (SE-CAMEX) between 2017 and 2018.
Messa holds a degree in Business Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas - SP (2001), a Master's in Business Economics from Fundação Getúlio Vargas - SP (2004) and a PhD in Economics from the University of São Paulo (2011).
The new Secretary has several articles published in the areas of trade policy and productivity. He has worked as a researcher at Ipea since 2004, where he published the book ‘The Brazilian Trade Policy in Analysis’.
Source: GMB
