Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas
Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas is a Brazilian engineer and military. He is the current Minister of Infrastructure of Jair Bolsonaro administration, being nominated in 27 November 2018.Biography
Government employee linked to the legislative advice in Chamber of Deputies, Gomes attended high school at Agulhas Negras Military Academy and is graduated in Engineering at Military Institute of Engineering, where he scored the highest average grade in the institution.
Tarcísio was also engineer for the Brazilian Army, chief of the technical section of the Engineering Company of Brazil at United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti and coordination-general of audit in the transports area at Controllership General of the Union.
In 2011, he was appointed to be executive director of the National Department of the Infrastructure of Transports by General Jorge Fraxe, who leaded the office during the "ethical cleaning" ordered by then president Dilma Rousseff, after a crsis caused by corruption dennounces. Ascended to the directory-general in 2014.
In 2015, he acted as secretary of the Coordination of Projects of the Special Secretariat of the Program of Partnerships of Investments, responsible for the program of privatizations and compromises.Personal Life
Freitas is Roman Catholic.
