Joao Moreira Salles
João Moreira Salles is a Brazilian documentarian and president of the Instituto Moreira Salles. In 2006, he founded the magazine piauí. He has also taught courses on documentary at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and Princeton University.
- Brazilian documentary filmmaker Joao Moreira Salles is a member of one of Brazil’s oldest banking families.
- His late father, Walther Moreira Salles, was the founder of Unibanco and a former ambassador to the United States.
- In 2008 Unibanco merged with Itau, then Brazil’s second-largest commercial bank, creating Itau-Unibanco, the largest bank in Latin America.
- Moreira Salles and his three brothers, all billionaires, also own stakes in CBMM, the world’s leading supplier of the mineral niobium.
