His sympathies for an inconditional pro-American foreign policy and foreign-capital-friendly economic policies earned him, already during the 1960s, his lifelong sobriquet: 'Bob Fields' (an anglicized word-to-word rendering of his actual name).

The first military president, Marshall Castelo Branco, appointed Campos as his Minister of Planning - and chief economic policy maker, jointly with the Finance Minister Octavio Gouvea de Bulhões - in which capacity he enacted various pro-business and pro-foreign capital - as well as anti-organized-labour - reforms that aimed to modernize the Brazilian economy in a liberal sense.

Roberto Campos sided with the military regime installed by the 1964 coup, which was greatly backed by Jorge Flores, a business partner of his. Eventually, disagreements with Goulart's policies led to his resignation in August 1963. Kennedy administration and the left-leaning João Goulart government. ĭuring the 1950s and early 1960s, Campos presented himself as a promoter of 'pragmatic, democratic nationalism,' as when he tried, as Brazilian ambassador in Washington, to reach an understanding between the John F. After Vargas's suicide, Campos served as economic advisor to his elected successor, president Juscelino Kubitschek. He was one of the supporters of the creation the BNDES (at the time BNDE - National Bank for Economic Development), a public authority whose function was to supply emerging industries with low-interest and long-term credits. From 1951 to 1953, he acted as an economic advisor in the second Getúlio Vargas administration, whose hallmarks were the paramountcy of nationalist economic policies. Career Ĭampos left New York City for Brazil in 1949. During this period, he also represented the Brazilian government in international economic meetings, such as the Bretton Woods conference. Three years later, he was sent to the United States, where he took graduate courses in economics at George Washington University and Columbia University. In 1939 Campos entered the Brazilian Foreign Service. Later, he received degrees in philosophy and theology from a seminary in Belo Horizonte.

Initially planning to enter the priesthood, he enrolled in a Catholic seminary in Guaxupé. He served in a number of capacities, including Brazilian ambassador to the United States and to the United Kingdom, minister of planning for the government of Castelo Branco, during the Brazilian military dictatorship, and congressman.Ĭampos was born in Cuiabá, in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Roberto de Oliveira Campos (17 April 1917 – 9 October 2001) was a Brazilian economist, writer, diplomat, politician and member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

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