Minister supports promotion of “intelligence of the external control”

Abstract

Weder de Oliveira completed 32 years of service in public administration in 2015. He started his career at Bank of Brazil (Banco do Brasil), and worked at Petrobras, the Federal Revenue Service (Receita Federal), the House of Representatives and the Federal Senate, since 2009 he has held the position of Substitute Minister at the Federal Court of Accounts of Brazil (TCU). In addition to being a civil and oil production engineer, Weder de Oliveira holds a degree in law from the Federal University of Brasilia, and a post-graduate degree in Economics from George Washington University. At the moment he is finishing his Master´s degree in Law at the University of São Paulo (USP). The Substitute Minister, who is married to Gabriela and father of Natalia (19) and Julia (16), met with the TCU Journal staff (Revista do TCU) in his office in the beginning of this winter for an interview. In the interview, he talked about important moments of his career and told us about some major works in which he acted as rapporteur, at TCU. During the conversation, he highlighted the benefits of staff specialization for the institution, in addition to talking about the importance of innovating the supervision processes.