Flavio Martins Rodrigues

Flavio Martins Rodrigues holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UERJ (1986), an MBA in Pension Funds Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ (1999), a Postgraduate Degree in Executive Retreat on Pension Reform Harvard University (2001), and a Master’s Degree in Tax Law Universidade Cândido Mendes – RJ (2002).

Expert in social security legislation, especially with respect to the operation of private and public social security entities. Member of the International Pension & Employee Benefits Lawyers Association-IPEBLA (Canada). Former Chief Executive Officer of the Fundo Único de Previdência Social do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro State Single Pension Fund, RIOPREVIDÊNCIA) March 1999 to February 2002. He presided over the Instituto de Certificação dos Profissionais da Seguridade Social (Certification Institute for Social Security Professionals, ICSS) (2002 – 2003).

Former Professor at the Faculty of Law at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UERJ, he coordinated the Programa Avançado de Estudos e Pesquisas em Seguridade Social (Advanced Program for Social Security Studies and Research, PROAPES).

He has given lectures at several entities and institutes, such as the Ministry of Social Security, the House of Representatives, Associação Brasileira das Entidades Fechadas de Previdência Complementar (Brazilian Association of Private Supplementary Pension Entities, ABRAPP), Fundação Escola Nacional de Seguros (National Insurance School Foundation, FUNENSEG), Associação Brasileira das Entidades dos Mercados Financeiro e de Capitais (Brazilian Association of Financial and Capital Markets Entities, ANBIMA), Escola da Magistratura do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – EMERJ, Escola da Magistratura Regional Federal – EMARF (RJ), always on topics related to the operation of pension funds.

Editor of the magazine “Revista de Previdência”, published by Ed. Gramma, and author of the books “Fundos de Pensão de Servidores Públicos” (“Pension Funds for Public Servants”) and “Fundos de Pensão: Temas Jurídicos” (“Pension Funds: Legal Topics”) (Publisher: Editora Renovar – RJ). He has published several technical articles in specialized magazines and widely circulated journals.