Antonio Palocci

Antonio Palocci Filho, born on 4 October 1960, is a Brazilian physician who became better known as a politician. He studied medicine at the University of Sao Paulo Ribeirao Preto Medical School, where he took part in student political movements and became one of the founders of the Workers Party. After graduating he worked for five years as a civil servant in the Ribeirao Preto regional office of the Sao Paulo State Public Health Secretariat, where he set up a workers health ward and later directed the regional public health office. He then moved into elected office as city councillor, state deputy, federal deputy and twice mayor of Ribeirao Preto, and from 2003 to 2006 served as Brazil finance minister, later returning as chief of staff in 2011. The record of his medical and public health service is brief; his later career is political and ended in criminal convictions, which this entry notes without treating them as medical history.