Jorge Pontes

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JORGE PONTES studied Law at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Uerj) and made a career as a Federal Police Chief. He designed and founded the Federal Police Environmental Crimes Unit, which he led for ten years. In addition to serving as Regional Superintendent for Pernambuco, Director of Interpol, and Federal Police Attaché in Paris, he was also an elected member of the Interpol Executive Committee. Pontes studied at the FBI National Academy and holds a post-graduate degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Virginia, both in the USA. Since retiring from the Federal Police, he worked as International Relations Manager on the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games Security Committee and as Director of Teaching and Research for the National Department for Public Security, under the Ministry of Justice. In 2019, in conjunction with fellow Federal Police Chief Márcio Anselmo, he published the book Crime.gov: Quando corrupção e governo misturam (Editora Objetiva), published in English as Operation Car Wash: Brazil's Institutionalized Crime and the Inside Story of the Biggest Corruption Scandal in History (Bloomsbury). Pontes is a senior consultant with the Instituto de Combustível Legal (Legal Fuels Institute), which works to ensure the Brazilian fuels industry's lawful compliance in its commercial activities. He also writes a weekly column for Veja magazine, where he discusses public security and the fight against systemic corruption.