Solange Paiva Vieira

Solange Paiva Vieira is a Brazilian economist. She has held positions in economic policy and regulation at the Brazilian Development Bank and The Ministry of Social Security. She is a past Director of the National Civil Aviation Agency of Brazil, and in 2019 she was named the Superintendent of the Brazilian Federal Private Insurance Agency (Pt).

Education Vieira was born in Valença, in the interior of the state of Rio de Janeiro. She attended the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in Minas Gerais, where she earned a BA degree in economics. She then studied economics as a graduate student at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas.

Career After completing her graduate work in economics, Vieira became a professor of economics at The Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, as well as at The Universidade Candido Mendes.

Public service In 1993, Vieira joined the Brazilian Development Bank. rather than continue and advise his successor Francisco Roberto André Gros. Though her position was largely focused on administrative efficiency, a substantial portion of her role was managing the country's social security policies through the social and economic fallout of the 2019 Coronavirus pandemic.