Dilma Vana Rousseff is a Brazilian economist and politician who is the Chair of the New Development Bank since March 2023. Previously, she served as the 36th president of Brazil from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the first woman to have held the Brazilian presidency. She also previously served as the chief of staff to former and current president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from 2005 to 2010.
Official portrait, 2011
Dilma studied in Nossa Senhora de Sion School (current Santa Doroteia School), in Belo Horizonte.
Dilma Rousseff during an interview in São Paulo.
Carlos Minc, who was also a VAR Palmares militant, denied Rousseff's role as head of the clandestine organization.
The New Development Bank (NDB), formerly referred to as the BRICS Development Bank, is a multilateral development bank established by the BRICS states. According to the Agreement on the NDB, "the Bank shall support public or private projects through loans, guarantees, equity participation and other financial instruments." Moreover, the NDB "shall cooperate with international organizations and other financial entities, and provide technical assistance for projects to be supported by the Bank."
NDB headquarters in Shanghai, China
New Development Bank President Dilma Rousseff with Russian President Vladimir Putin on 26 July 2023
The logo of the NDB in the bank's HQ in Shanghai
Image: The President, New Development Bank, Shri K.V. Kamath addressing a press conference after the Second National Development Bank (NDB) Annual Board of Governors’ Meeting, in New Delhi on April 01, 2017 (Cropped)