Luiz

Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva

Deputy General Manager
Bank for International Settlements

Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva became Deputy General Manager on 1 October 2015. Before joining the BIS, Mr Pereira da Silva, a Brazilian national, had been Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Brazil since 2010. Prior to that, he worked in various positions for the World Bank in Washington DC, Tokyo and southern Africa. He also served as Chief Economist for the Brazilian Ministry of Budget and Planning, and as Brazil's Deputy Finance Minister in charge of international affairs.

Fields of interest

  • Monetary policy
  • Financial stability and macroprudential issues
  • DSGE models

03 Dec 2018
Financial instability: can Big Data help connect the dots?

Remarks by Mr Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, Deputy General Manager of the BIS, based on a speech delivered at the Ninth European Central Bank Statistics Conference on "20 years of ESCB statistics: what's next?", Frankfurt am Main, 11 July 2018.
06 Nov 2018
Financial inclusion in the age of fintech: a paradigm shift

Welcoming keynote address by Mr Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, Deputy General Manager of the BIS, at the fourth FSI-GPFI conference on standard-setting bodies and innovative financial inclusion: implications of fintech and other regulatory and supervisory developments, Basel, Switzerland, 25 October 2018.  
20 Jun 2018
Fintech in EMEs: blessing or curse?

Panel remarks by Mr Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, Deputy General Manager of the BIS, at the CV Meeting of Central Bank Governors of CEMLA - Asuncion, Paraguay, 5 June 2018.

16 May 2018
With a little help from my friends: why large financial spillovers require more international macroprudential policy coordination

Remarks by Mr Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, Deputy General Manager of the BIS, at the Joint BIS-PIIE Roundtable on "Global interdependence: rethinking international policy coordination with a special focus on macroprudential policies", Washington DC, 18 April 2018.

14 Mar 2018
In defence of central bank DSGE modelling

Introductory remarks by Mr Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, Deputy General Manager of the BIS, at the Seventh BIS Research Network meeting on "Pushing the frontier of central banks' macro-modelling", Basel, 8 March 2018.
20 Feb 2018
How to transition out of a "Goldilocks economy" without creating a new "Minsky moment"?

Remarks by Mr Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, Deputy General Manager of the BIS, and Mr Jochen Schanz, Senior Economist, on the occasion of the joint conference by the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia and the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee on "Monetary policy and asset management", Skopje, 16 February 2018.
03 Oct 2017
Avoiding "regulatory wars" using international coordination of macroprudential policies

Article by Mr Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, Deputy General Manager of the BIS, and Mr Michael Chui, Senior Economist, based on panel remarks at the Seminar on Financial Volatility and Foreign Exchange Intervention: Challenges for Central Banks, jointly organised by the Inter-American Development Bank and the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, Cusco, 25-26 July 2017.
13 Jul 2017
Green finance: can it help combat climate change?

Remarks by Mr Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, Deputy General Manager of the BIS, at the conference organised by the BIS, OMFIF, the Deutsche Bundesbank and the World Bank Group, Frankfurt, 13 July 2017.
07 Apr 2017
QE experiences and some lessons for monetary policy: defending the important role central banks have played

Article by Mr Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, Deputy General Manager of the BIS, and Mr Phurichai Rungcharoenkitkul, Senior Economist, for the Eurofi High Level Seminar 2017, Malta, 5-7 April 2017.
06 Apr 2017
The risk of complacency and self-delusion

Article by Mr Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, Deputy General Manager of the BIS, and Mr Előd Takáts, Senior Economist, for the Eurofi High Level Seminar 2017, Malta, 5-7 April 2017.