Roseana Sarney Murad (born 1 June 1953) is a Brazilian politician and sociologist, who previously served as the Governor of Maranhão from 1995 to 2002 and from 2009 to 2014.

[3] Sarney considered running for president in 2002,[4] but a corruption scandal led to her withdrawal from the race on 15 April 2002.

Descended from plantation owners, Sarney was an intellectual and businessman affiliated with the ARENA military dictatorship.

[6] The media business expanded into an empire called the Mirante Group, now an affiliate of TV Globo, the world's second largest broadcasting corporation.

[1] In 1970, Sarney was educated in Social Sciences at the University of Brasília before serving as an advisor to NOVACAP, a state urbanization company for the Federal District from 1974 to 1976.