MVerdi@ciat.org

Mr. Marcio F. Verdi is an economist and retired tax auditor of the Federal Revenue Service of Brazil. Mr. Verdi is the Executive Secretary of the InterAmerican Center of Tax Administrations – CIAT.

He has specialized in International Economics in the University of Brasilia (UnB). He holds a Postgraduate degree in Theory and Implementation of a Modern Economy, from the George Washington University – GWU of the “Institute of Brazilian Business and Public Management Issues”, Washington, D.C. U.S.A.

Mr. Verdi held important positions in the Brazilian government, among others, General Management Coordinator of State-owned Companies, and has sat on countless Boards of Brazilian state-owned companies in different sectors.

He has served in the distinguished position of Member of the National Commission for Privatization, responsible for the Program on Privatizations, Public Services Concessions and Public and Private Sector related Projects.

In the Federal Revenue Secretariat of Brazil (RFB) he has held the different positions, among then being the General Tax Policy Coordinator, from June 2002 to July 2004. He was advisor to the RFB Secretary on the development and assessment of the Brazilian tax policy.

He has lectured and presented in different international meetings in over 60 countries and has been honored with the Nóe Winckler Tax Auditor’s Merit from the Federal Revenue Secretariat of Brazil in November, 2002.

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