"The economist Joao Sayad is skeptical in relation to the current political sphere".(translated from portuguese)"...The 69 year old economist João Sayad, is an eclectic individual. Without any political affiliation, he has navigated through an array of different political currents...In his new book, Dinheiro, Dinheiro (Money, Money) (Ed.Portfolio Penguin), he has analyzed the endless economic dispute between the monetarists and the keynesians."
iadb.org
"New Vice President for Planning and Administration appointed at IDB". Inter-American Development Bank...."Sayad is a citizen of Brazil with many years of experience in the fields of planning and finance in the public and private sectors...president and chairman of the board of directors of the Inter-American Express Bank in São Paulo and director of the Economic Research Institute Foundation at the University of São Paulo..."
nytimes.com
"Brazil Names New Cabinet". New York Times."...João Sayad, 39, who obtained a doctorate in economics from Yale in the 1970s and was until recently Finance Secretary for São Paulo"
