Alexandre Barreto de Souza, CADE’s president, holds a master degree in management, a specialization in public management and a bachelor degree in management from the University of Brasília. He is a federal auditor of external control of the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU).
From 2000 to 2005 he worked at the Federal Senate as a technical adviser assigned by the TCU. At the TCU, he was the director responsible for the monitoring of state-owned financial institutions between 2010 and 2013.