Acauã Brochado is a civil servant and financial analyst at the National Treasury of Brazil, where he has led several teams focused on fiscal policy, particularly in the design, implementation, and oversight of fiscal rules, with an emphasis on subnational public debt. His research explores fiscal federalism from a macroeconomic perspective, especially the reasons behind central government guarantees, bailouts and broader subsidies to subnational debt. He has also contributed to the OECD Network