Guilherme Afif Domingos

Guilherme Afif Domingos (born 18 September 1943) is a Brazilian company administrator, entrepreneur, politician, and member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). A longtime leader in the São Paulo business community, he was a close ally of former governor Paulo Maluf, serving in economic and technocratic state offices.

Elected Federal Deputy in 1987, Afif ran for President of Brazil as a member of the Liberal Party, being defeated in the first round of the 1989 election.

More recently Afif was Vice Governor of São Paulo between 2011 and 2014, chief-minister of the Secretariat of Micro and Small Business of the Presidency of the Republic under Dilma Rousseff between 2013 and 2015, and president of the Sebrae between 2015 and 2018. From 2019 to 2022, he served as a special advisor to Paulo Guedes, Jair Bolsonaro's Minister of the Economy. Afif currently serves as Special Secretary for Strategic Projects of the State of São Paulo under Tarcísio de Freitas.

Early life and career Afif was born on 18 September 1943 in São Paulo, São Paulo, the second son of Jamil Domingos and Henriette Afif Domingos, of both Lebanese and Italian descent. Until the age of 7, he lived in the interior of São Paulo in the municipality of Casa Branca. Afif attended Colégio Elvira Brandão until 1955 where he entered Colégio São Luís. Graduating with a degree in Business Administration from the Faculty of Economics, he worked as a young man in his father's small textile business. While studying business in the 1960s, Afif organized freshman dances to the music of the Dick Farney orchestra and became president of the school's Academic Center.

Business career In 1972 Afif became director of , a family insurance company initially registered in 1945 by his maternal grandfather.

Personal life In 1970, Afif married the writer Silvia Maria Dellivenneri, with whom he had four children and ten grandchildren. On 13 October 2024, she died at the age of 74 in the municipality of São Paulo.