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29/03/23 06:39 AM IST

Dilma Rousseff

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  • Former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been “unanimously elected” as the head of New Development Bank (NDB), a multilateral financial institution set up by the five BRICS countries.
Dilma Rousseff
  • Dilma Vana Rousseff is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016.
  • She was the first woman to hold the office of President in Brazil. Prior to her presidency, Rousseff served as the Chief of Staff to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from 2005 to 2010.
  • She was also the Minister of Mines and Energy from 2003 to 2005.
  • Rousseff was impeached and removed from office in 2016 on charges of breaking budgetary laws. Before her political career, Rousseff was a guerrilla fighter during the dictatorship period in Brazil, and she was imprisoned and tortured for several years.
  • Dilma Rousseff previously served as Brazil’s Minister of Mines and Energy and as Minister Chief of Staff during the first two governments of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva until 2010.
About BRICS
  • BRICS is an acronym for the grouping of the world’s leading emerging economies, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
  • The BRICS members are known for their significant influence on regional affairs.
  • Since 2009, the BRICS nations have met annually at formal summits.
  • Originally the first four were grouped as “BRIC” before the induction of South Africa
  • The first BRIC Summit took place in 2009 in the Russian Federation and focused on issues such as reform of the global financial architecture.
Source- Hindustan Times

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