Douglas Kiarelly Godoy de Araujo

Member of Secretariat
Monetary and Economic Department, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

Douglas Kiarelly Godoy de Araujo is a Member of Secretariat of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Before joining the BIS in 2018, Doug worked at the Central Bank of Brazil on macroprudential supervision (2011-15), and led the efforts to develop and implement the Brazilian segmentation and proportionality framework for prudential regulation (2015-18). His work on proportionality also involved prudential regulation for fintechs and other challenger lenders. Doug was a Fellow at the BIS's Financial Stability Institute in 2014, focusing on financial stability monitoring. From 2015 to 2018, he was also a member of missions of the International Monetary Fund to support a number of countries to enhance their macroprudential frameworks. Until 2011, Doug worked in the private sector in Brazilian financial markets. His current research focuses on the use of large supervisory data sets to assess the impact of regulation and the relationship between behavioural finance and financial stability.

Fields of interest

  • Financial stability and macro-prudential issues
  • Financial institutions and micro-prudential issues
  • Central banking