Edgard Antonio Pereira

Edgard Pereira holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Institute of Economics of the University of Campinas – UNICAMP (1981), and a master’s degree and a doctorate in economics from the Industrial Economics Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ (1985 and 1996).

He was a professor in the Economics Theory Department of the Institute of Economics of the University of Campinas – UNICAMP (1983-2017) and a visiting scholar in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, where he completed his studies to prepare a PhD thesis on pricing and inflation in Brazil (1995-1996). He was also a visiting researcher in the Centre d’Économie de la Sorbonne at the Université Paris I, Paris, France, where he studied the developments of the cost transaction theory applied to antitrust and regulation (2011).He is a visiting scholar in the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University, New York, USA, studying the structural changes in the intersectoral impact coefficients of the Brazilian, Chinese and American economies (2022-2023).

Edgard also had a prolific public career, serving as Director of the Department of Supply and Prices for the Ministry of Economics, Finance and Planning (1990); National Economics Secretary for the Ministry of Economics, Finance and Planning (1990-1991); and Finance Secretary for the City of Campinas (1994). He was also a consultant for the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank for industrial policy issues related to Mercosur, and coordinator of several studies on industry and industrial economics. He was also the chief economist of the Institute of Industrial Development Studies – IEDI (2006-2007). He is author of a number of articles published in specialised journals and is a lecturer at several national and international conferences and seminars.

Edgard is the founding partner of EDAP - Edgard Pereira & Associados, a pioneering economics consulting firm established in 1991, acting in antitrust, antidumping, economic studies, sectoral analysis and macroeconomic forecasts, expert testimony and witnesses in arbitration and court proceedings and economic regulation. EDAP’s clients are the main companies operating in their respective areas of activity, such as: Assurant, General Electric, Marriott, Motorola, Nestlé, Whrilpool, among others.