Lúcio Mauro Vinhas de Souza, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Brazilian economist
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Place of Birth: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
About Lúcio Mauro Vinhas de Souza
- Lúcio Vinhas de Souza is a Portuguese economist.
- His main research areas are global macroeconomics, finance and country risk, with extensive work experience at the developed economies of the European Union and the US, and in several emerging market regions, from the former Soviet Union to East Asia, Africa and Latin America. Born in Brazil in 1966, he has B.A.
- and M.Sc.
- degrees in Economics by the Faculdade de Economia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FE/UNL) in Lisbon, Portugal, and a Ph.D.
- in Economics by the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Dr.
- Vinhas de Souza was invited to lead the Economics Team at the European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC), the internal think tank of the European Commission President, in April 2015.
- In this position, he coordinates economic analysis in all matter of economic subjects for President Juncker’s Cabinet, including among others, the EU's Banking Union, Capital Markets Union, the EU Budget -known as the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), and the so-called ‘5 Presidents’ report on the reform of the euro area.
- Prior to that, Dr.
- Vinhas de Souza was between 2011 and 2015 the first Sovereign Chief Economist of Moody's Investors Service (MIS), the second largest rating agency in the world.
- There, he helped define the analytical response of MIS to the Global sovereign debt crisis, and interacted with public and private counterparts in the 140-plus Moody’s rated Sovereigns and multilateral bodies around the World. Before joining Moody’s, Dr.
- Vinhas de Souza was a World Bank official based in its Washington, D.C.
- headquarters, where he worked in several subjects, from the euro area to China and Kazakhstan.
- Prior to that, he was between 2005 and 2010 the Head of the Desk for Russia and Belarus at the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG-ECFIN) of the European Commission (EC).
- Previously, between 2002 and 2005, he was Coordinator of Research Area at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) in Kiel, Germany.
- Dr.
- Vinhas de Souza also held the position of Economist at the United Nations Secretariat between 1995 and 1997.
- He was also a Fellow at the ECARES-Free University of Brussels, a Visiting Researcher at the Central Banks of Estonia and Germany, and a member of the Managing Board of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) between 2003 and 2006.Dr.
- Vinhas de Souza is also currently a member of the Advisory Board of the John F.
- Welch College of Business at the Sacred Heart University in the United States and a fellow at several research centers.
- He also has a considerable list of publications in several languages. Dr.
- Vinhas de Souza is married and has one daughter.
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