Lúcio Vinhas de Souza

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Lúcio Vinhas de Souza is a Brazilian-Portuguese economist. His main research areas are global macroeconomics, development economics, 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 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 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 is a Board Member of the Economic Club of Washington, D.C.[2], and since 2021 an Advisor to the leadership of the European External Action Service or EEAS, the EU's "Ministry of Foreign Affairs" (a U.S. analog would be the Department of State), where he deals with international economic and financial matters, EU sanctions [3] and the EU's international energy policy [4]. Before that, he led the Economics Department of the European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC), the internal think tank of the European Commission President. In this position, he coordinated analysis and supported the definition and implementation of all matter of economic and financial policies for the EC President and his Cabinet, including among others, "EU-Asia Connectivity" [5], the predecessor of the "Global Gateway" [6] EU policy, the EU's Banking Union and 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 for Russia and Belarus and coordinator for the Western countries of The Commonwealth of Independent States 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 over a hundred different publications in several languages. Dr. Vinhas de Souza is married and has one daughter. (Source: DBPedia)