Winston Fritsch

Trustee at the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI) and a member of its Environment and Climate Change Program. Dr. Fritsch is President Director of Struttura Development and Project Finance and WF Associate Consultants.

He was CEO of Petra Energia, Managing Director of Lehman Brothers in Brazil, CEO of Dresdner Bank in Brazil, Partner of Rio Bravo Investimentos, and Senior Partner of Orienta Investments, associated with Nomura Securities. He was also Chairman of the Board of the Brazilian Association of International Banks and a member of the Board of Febraban.

In the Brazilian government, Dr. Fritsch was Secretary of Economic Policy at the Ministry of Finance. He was Director of the School of Economics and Administration of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Dean of the Center for Social Sciences of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), and Professor of the MBA Program at COPPEAD Graduate School of Business, which is UFRJ’s Business School. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the London Business School. Dr. Fritsch received a bachelor's and a master's degree in Engineering from UFRJ, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge.