Gabriel Muricca Galípolo (born 14 April 1982) is a Brazilian economist, ex-banker, writer and university professor, currently serving as the president of the Central Bank of Brazil.
[1][2] Galípolo is Bachelor of Economic Sciences and Master of Political Economy at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP) and had served as CEO of Banco Fator from 2017 to 2021.
On 13 December 2022, during the presidential transition of president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, he was announced as executive-secretary of the Finance Ministry, under minister Fernando Haddad.
[7] Under the orientation of João Machado Borges Neto, Galípolo defended his master's degree thesis in 2008, named The Law of Value as limit to the development of the Brazilian economy.
Galípolo taught the MBA of public-private partnerships and concessions at the São Paulo School Foundation of Sociology and Politics (FESPSP) and is senior researcher of the Brazilian Center of Foreign Affairs.