06 April 2011

Financial payments company MasterCard named  Eduardo (Ed) Santos vice president of public policy for the Latin America and the Caribbean region. He is based in Miami.

Santos is responsible for formulating and implementing Mastercard’s public policy initiatives in the region, which often relate to regulation or deployment of technology. The job involves meeting with senior officials in Latin America and the United States in government, multilateral agencies, non-governmental agencies and other stakeholders.

Before joining MasterCard, Santos was government affairs manager for Latin America at Hewlett-Packard. In that job, he also was responsible for HP’s worldwide government engagement on the issue of counterfeiting.

He previously worked for more than 20 years in commercial and investment banking at such banks as Leumi, Barclays and Espirito Santo. He was a founding member of the International Banking Committee of the Florida Bankers Association and served on the board of the Florida International Bankers Association.

He earned his BA in political science at the University of Miami.

Santos now serves as MasterCard's representative to the Council of the Americas, the Brazil-US Business Council of the US Chamber of Commerce, as well as several bi-national chambers of commerce and trade associations.

He is a board member of the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce of Florida since 1990 and was president of that bi-national chamber three times.

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