Ministry of Entrepreneurship, Microenterprise and Small Business

The Ministry of Entrepreneurship, Microenterprise and Small Business (Portuguese: Ministério do Empreendedorismo, da Microempresa e da Empresa de Pequeno Porte) is a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil. It is an institution previously created in 2013 as the Secretariat for Micro and Small Enterprises (Portuguese: Secretaria da Micro e Pequena Empresa da Presidência da República), a cabinet-level secretariat under the responsibility of the Presidency of the Republic from 2013 to 2015.^[1][2] It was dissolved after a ministry shuffle in October 2015.^[3] Since then, it became part of the Secretariat of Government of the Presidency, without a ministry status. On 1 January 2019, its functions were merged into the recently created Ministry of the Economy. On 13 September 2023, it was recreated as a ministry.^[4]

Ministry of Entrepreneurship, Microenterprise and Small Business

Portuguese: Ministério do Empreendedorismo, da Microempresa e da Empresa de Pequeno Porte
Agency overview
Formed	1 April 2013 (2013-04-01)
Type	Ministry
Jurisdiction	Federal government of Brazil
Headquarters	Esplanada dos Ministérios Brasília, Federal District
Agency executive	Márcio França, Minister
Website	www.gov.br/memp

Ministers

No.	Portrait	Minister	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Party		President
1		Guilherme Afif Domingos (born 1943)	1 April 2013 (2013-04-01)	2 October 2015 (2015-10-02)	2 years, 184 days		PSD	Dilma Rousseff (PT)
2		Carlos Leony	2 October 2015 (2015-10-02)	17 May 2016 (2016-05-17)	228 days		Independent	Dilma Rousseff (PT)
3		José Martins da Veiga	17 May 2016 (2016-05-17)	1 January 2019 (2019-01-01)	2 years, 229 days		Independent	Michel Temer (MDB)
4		Márcio França (born 1963)	13 September 2023 (2023-09-13)	Incumbent	1 year, 327 days		PSB	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT)