Carlos Higino Ribeiro de Alencar is a Brazilian economist and politician. He was the interim and second Minister of Transparency, Monitoring and Control and was the executive secretary of the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU).

Education

Higino graduated in economics from the

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in 1994 and in Law from the

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in 2003. He earned a master's degree in Constitutional Law at the Brazilian Institute of Public Law (IDP) in 2009, and specialized in labor law at the Community Foundation of Higher Education of Itabira (Funcesi).

Administrative career

Higino served as Internal Affairs Offices of

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and

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for the Secretaria da Receita Federal do Brasil of the

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. He then served as an advisor at the now-defunct

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(CGU). Higino, an opponent of

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in Brazil, was noted for the simultaneous appointment of his wife, Manuela Sabóia Moura de Alencar, as Chief of the Medical Department of the CGU. Higino and Sabóia maintained a professional distance but started their tenures at the CGU on the same day. Higino later served as Secretary of State for Transparency and Control of the Federal District of Brazil. He was the second Vice President of the National Council of Internal Control (CONACI). He is also an acting instructor at the School of Finance Administration of the

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-Federal District.

References

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