 He was the Mayor of Belo Horizonte from 2001 to 2009, the Minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade in the Cabinet of former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff from 2011 to 2014 and the Governor of Minas Gerais from 2015 to 2019.Fernando Pimentel studied Economy at the Federal University of Minas Gerais.He is a member of the PT, a party he helped to create.