Paulo Guilherme Correa

Paulo Correa holds an Economics MSc. from the University of Western Ontario (1996) and an Industrial Economics MSc. from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1993). He is currently a senior economist at the World Bank’s Private and Financial Sector Department in the Europe and Central Asia Region. Since joining the Bank in 2002 he has advised European and Latin American countries on private sector development issues. His work focuses on the areas of the political economy of reforms, innovation policy, productivity and the investment climate, private participation in infrastructure and competition policy. Paulo was formerly Deputy-Secretary of State in the Brazilian Ministry of Finance (1999-2001), where he was responsible for the regulatory and competition policy unit. He was an advisor to the Telecommunications Regulatory Agency in Brazil (2002); the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development-UNCTAD (2001) and the Government of Panama (1997-98) in the areas of competition policy and infrastructure regulation. He has authored a number of articles published in peer-reviewed journals including, more recently, in the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance (2007).