Fábio Medina Osório
Fábio Medina Osório | |
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12th Attorney General of Brazil | |
Assumed office May 12, 2016 |
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President | Michel Temer |
Preceded by | José Eduardo Cardozo |
Personal details | |
Born | Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
July 31, 1967
Spouse(s) | Patrícia Grassi Osório |
Alma mater | Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul |
Fábio Medina Osório (Porto Alegre, July 31, 1967) is a lawyer, professor, and current Attorney General of Brazil. He is the former State Prosecutor of Rio Grande do Sul, and was appointed Attorney General of Brazil by Acting President Michel Temer.[1][2]
Biography
Medina Osório graduated from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in 1990, a master's degree in in law from the same institution in 1997, and a PhD from Complutense University of Madrid in 2003. He is a specialist in the study of the law of corruption. He became a prosecutor in the Public Ministry of the State of Rio Grande do Sul in December 1991. Medina Osório was appointed the Deputy Secretary of Justice and Security of Rio Grande do Sul by governor Germano Rigotto in 2003, and served in the position until 2005. He resigned to go into private law practice in January 2006. Medina Osório also chairs the Instituto Internacional de Estudos de Direito do Estado (International Institute for the Study of Public Law).[1][2][3][4]
Attorney General of Brazil
Medina Osório was appointed Attorney General on May 12, 2016 by the interim government of Michel Temer, and the appointment was published in the Official Gazette (DOU) on the following day. He resigned from his private law firm, Medina Osório Advogados, the same week.[1]
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