Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas
Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas | |
|---|---|
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| Minister of Infrastructure | |
| Assumed office 1 January 2019 | |
| President | Jair Bolsonaro |
| Preceded by | Valter Casimiro Silveira |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas 19 June 1975 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Alma mater | Military Institute of Engineering (B.E.) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Brazil |
| Branch/service |  Brazilian Army |
| Rank |  Captain |
Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas (born 19 June 1975) is a Brazilian engineer and military. He is the current Minister of Infrastructure of Jair Bolsonaro administration, being nominated in 27 November 2018.[1][2]
Biography[]
Government employee linked to the legislative advice in Chamber of Deputies, Gomes attended high school at Agulhas Negras Military Academy and is graduated in Engineering at Military Institute of Engineering, where he scored the highest average grade in the institution.[3]
Tarcísio was also engineer for the Brazilian Army, chief of the technical section of the Engineering Company of Brazil at United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and coordination-general of audit in the transports area at Controllership General of the Union (CGU).
In 2011, he was appointed to executive director of the National Department of the Infrastructure of Transports (DNIT) by General Jorge Fraxe, who led the office during the "ethical cleaning" ordered by then-president Dilma Rousseff, after a crisis caused by corruption. He ascended to the directory-general in 2014.[4]
In 2015, he acted as secretary of the Coordination of Projects of the Special Secretariat of the Program of Partnerships of Investments (PPI), responsible for the program of privatizations and compromises.
Personal life[]
Freitas is Roman Catholic.[5][6]
References[]
- ^ Vilela, Pedro Rafael (27 November 2018). "Bolsonaro indica ex-diretor do Dnit para Ministério da Infraestrutura" (in Portuguese). Agência Brasil. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
- ^ Mazui, Guilherme (27 November 2018). "Bolsonaro anuncia ex-diretor do Dnit Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas para ministro da Infraestrutura" (in Portuguese). G1. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
- ^ Rothenburg, Denise (28 November 2018). "Bolsonaro aumenta número de ministérios para atender núcleos econômico, militar e político" (in Portuguese). Correio Braziliense. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
- ^ Borges, André (22 September 2014). "Diretor assume chefia do DNIT no lugar de general" (in Portuguese). Estadão. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
- ^ "Quem é Tarcísio de Freitas, o 3º "superministro" de Bolsonaro". 20 May 2019.
- ^ "O trator que acelera o governo federal". 2 December 2019.
External links[]
- 1975 births
- Living people
- People from Rio de Janeiro (city)
- Brazilian Roman Catholics
- Brazilian civil engineers
- Government ministers of Brazil