Joint Staff of the Armed Forces

The Chief of the Joint General Staff of the Armed Forces (Brazilian Portuguese: Chefe do Estado Maior Conjunto das Forças Armadas - EMCFA) is the professional head of the Brazilian Armed Forces, who is responsible for the centralizes the coordination and control of the three branches: Army, Navy and Air Force.^[1] The position was created through the Complementary Law No. 136 of 25 August 2010, and is guided by Ordinance No. 1429.

Chief of the Joint General Staff of the Armed Forces
Chefe do Estado Maior Conjunto das Forças Armadas
Incumbent Renato Rodrigues de Aguiar Freire since 1 January 2023
Ministry of Defense
Abbreviation	Chief of the EMCFA
Member of	Joint General Staff of the Armed Forces
Reports to	Minister of Defense
Seat	National Defense Council
Nominator	Minister of Defense
Appointer	President of Brazil
Formation	25 August 2010
First holder	José Carlos De Nardi
Website	Official website

Commander of Joint General Staff of the Armed Forces

The head of the EMCFA is nominated by the defense minister and appointed by the President, as the commanders of the forces and will have the same hierarchical level of these and ascendancy over all other military of any of the Force, except over the commanders themselves. The position will be occupied by a general officer's last stand (four stars) in both the active and the reserve and, if active, will automatically for the booking of the appointment, as it is with the commanders of each Forces.

List of chiefs

No.	Portrait	Chief of the Joint Staff	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Defence branch	Ref.
1		Nardi, JoséGeneral José Carlos De Nardi (born 1944)	6 September 2010	7 December 2015	5 years, 92 days	Army	[2][3]
2		Sobrinho, AdemirAdmiral Ademir Sobrinho (born 1952)	7 December 2015	19 January 2019	3 years, 43 days	Navy	[4]
3		Botelho, RaulLieutenant-brigadier Raul Botelho (born 1957)	19 January 2019	31 May 2021	2 years, 132 days	Air Force	[4][5]
4		Santos, Laerte de SouzaGeneral Laerte de Souza Santos (born 1958)	31 May 2021	31 December 2022	1 year, 214 days	Army	[6]
5		de Aguiar Freire, Renato RodriguesAdmiral Renato Rodrigues de Aguiar Freire (born 1960)	1 January 2023	Incumbent	2 years, 234 days	Navy	[7]