Former CEO of Cegás from 2017 to 2022, Secretary of Planning and Management of the State of Ceará from 2015 to 2017. Affiliated with the Federal University of Ceará as a Lecturer in the School of Economics, Administration, Actuarial Sciences and Accounting, he holds a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Wageningen University (The Netherlands), an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) and a BS in Aeronautical Engineering from Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (ITA, Brazil). He has experience in the public and in the private sector, working in strategy and controllership, managerial accounting and cost analysis, economic development, industrial organization and innovation.