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- Lucio Vinhas de Souza
Lucio Vinhas de Souza
Lúcio Vinhas de Souza is the Managing Director – Sovereign Chief Economist of Moody’s Investors Service (MIS) since 2011. Before that position, he coordinated the analysis and forecasting for the HIC (High Income Countries) and ECA (Europe and Central Asia) regions at the World Bank’s “Development Prospects Group”, where he co-authored the flagship “Global Economic Prospects” publication. Prior to the World Bank, Dr. Vinhas de Souza was the Head of the Russia and Belarus Desk at the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) within the European Commission in Belgium, and before that he was a Coordinator of Research Area at the Kiel Institute for World Economics in Germany. Going further back, his first work experience as an international economist was at the United Nations’ Secretariat. Currently, Dr. Vinhas de Souza is also co-head of the Joint MIS-Peterson Institute for International Economics “Sovereign Panel” and a member of the Advisory Board of the J.F. Welch College of Business at Sacred Heart University in the United States, and of the Centre for Economic and Financial Research at the New Economic School in Russia. He has also been a visiting researcher and visiting fellow at a number of institutions, including the Deutsche Bundesbank, the ECARES in Belgium and the Central Bank of Estonia. He is widely published in noteworthy economic journals in different languages and has organized and participated in numerous international meetings, seminars and workshops. Dr. Vinhas de Souza, a Portuguese citizen, holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and a Master in Economics from the New University of Lisbon in Portugal.