Rank #807
Walther Moreira Salles Junior
Net worth $5.3B
Banking, minerals · Brazil
- Born
- Apr 12, 1956
- Age
- 70
- Source
- Banking, minerals
- Residence
- Rio de Janeiro
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 1
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Southern California
Net worth over time
Biography
- Walther Moreira Salles Junior (also known as Walter Salles) is a Brazilian filmmaker and 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.
- Moreira Salles directed more than 20 films, including 'The Motorcycle Diaries' and 1998 Academy Award nominee 'Central Station.'
- His screenplay adaptation of Jack Kerouac's book On the Road, with Francis Ford Coppola producing, was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
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