Since September 2019 he is Chief Representative for the Americas, based in Mexico City, of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).

He worked in the Ministry of Finance between 1991 and 1995, where he headed the technical team negotiating the Common External Tariff (CET) of Mercosur.

Between 1995 and 1998, he was special advisor to the Board of Foreign Trade, Chief of Staff of the Presidency of the Republic.

He was in charge of operating the Global Econometric Model (GEM) developed by the London Business School, Head of the technical group in charge of negotiating the Mercosul Common External Tariff (TEC) and Editor of Boletim de Economia Internacional, the International Economics Bulletin, published quarterly by the Ministry.

In his first address, he said he would have full operational autonomy and that his goal is inflation control, which shall not exceed the target of 4.5 percent per year.