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Incoming central bank head Alexandre Tombini, 47, may lack the authority that allowed outgoing bank chief Henrique Meirelles to slow prices to 5.6 percent from 12.5 percent in eight years.
Tombini has spent most of his professional life at the central bank but his relationship with president-elect Dilma Rousseff is called “a very big uncertainty.”
He studied at the University of Illinois, in Urbana-Champaign under the guidance of economics professor Werner Baer as did the central bank presidents of Colombia and Paraguay, as well as the President Rafael Correa of Ecuador.
