António Nogueira Leite
 António Nogueira Leite    (economist, academic) | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | 3 March 1962 | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | Portuguese | |||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Catholic University of Portugal, University of Illinois | |||||||||||||
| Party | Social Democratic Party (Portugal) | |||||||||||||
Portuguese economist who in 2010 wrote book criticizing "our financial irresponsibility and the succession of mistakes that have created an economy incapable of growing and modernizing". Selected to attend Bilderberg/2011.
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António do Pranto Nogueira Leite is a Portuguese economist and professor. In 2010 he wrote a book which was a "history of our financial irresponsibility and the succession of mistakes that have created an economy incapable of growing and modernizing". He was selected to attend the 2011 Bilderberg meeting.
Education
After graduating in Economics from the Faculty of economics of the Catholic University of Portugal in 1983, he obtained a master's degree and a doctorate from the University of Illinois in 1986 and 1988, respectively. He has been a full professor at the Faculty of economics of Universidade Nova de Lisboa since 1995.
Career
He was administrator of pulp and paper company Soporcel (1996-1999) and chairman of the Board of Directors of the Lisbon Stock Exchange (1999). He left this position to join the government, as Secretary of State for Treasury and Finance (1999-2000), under minister Joaquim Pina Moura. By virtue of his duties, he was also governor (alternate) of the European Investment Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Inter-American Development Bank; and representative of Portugal in the economic and financial Council of the European Union. He resumed his career in the private sector linked to the José de Mello Group, and was was successively executive director of CUF, SEC, José de Mello Saúde, EFACEC Capital, Comitur Imobiliária and non-executive director of Reditus, Brisa and Quimigal.
Between July 2011 and January 2013 he was Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee of the bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Caixa Banco de Investimento and President of Caixa Capital. Among the other positions he held he was chairman of the General Board of OPEX, member of the National Council of the CMVM, vice-chairman of the Advisory Board of Banif Investment Bank, member of the Advisory Board of the Portuguese Association for the development of Communications and member of the Board of IPRI.
He was director of HipogesIberia, S. A. and EDP Renováveis, S. A. (non - executive), member of the Advisory Board of Incus Capital (Madrid) and President of Fórum Oceano-Associação da Economia Do Mar.
He was a member of the National Council of the Social Democratic Party from 2008 to 2011.
Writings
His work has been published in academic journals, chapters of internationally edited books (the Economics of Information Networks, Elsevier, Fiscal Policy in Europe, Kluwer, Regulation in Telecommunications, Kluwer) and several books.
A Portuguese tragedy, written with journalist Paulo Ferreira, was published in 2010. A review said that in the book, "Nogueira Leite describes the history of our financial irresponsibility and the succession of mistakes that have created an economy incapable of growing and modernizing in the world, which we have today, of global competition. First, Nogueira Leite's insistence that after the "morphine of the euro", as he defines the state of pure unconsciousness in which Portugal walked 15 years ago, or if you want, from Guterres to now, we need to radically change our lives. But Nogueira Leite, although he knows what to do in principle, remains in the role of a technician and does not write a word about the political means of this improbable and miraculous transformation. He is certainly not thinking of the PSD and the PS as instruments of peaceful and voluntary reform. And he certainly counts on a kind of internal apocalypse or an external intervention."[1]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2011 | 9 June 2011 | 12 June 2011 | Switzerland Hotel Suvretta St. Moritz | 59th meeting, in Switzerland, 129 guests |
