Artur Santos Silva
 Artur Santos Silva    ( businessman) | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | 22 May 1941 Porto, Portugal | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | Portuguese | |||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Coimbra | |||||||||||||
| Parents | Artur Morgado Ferreira dos Santos Silva | |||||||||||||
| Relatives | Eduardo Santos Silva | |||||||||||||
Portuguese Bilderberger economist and banker who attended Bilderberg/1986 and Bilderberg/1999
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Artur Eduardo Brochado dos Santos Silva is a Portuguese economist and banker who attended the 1986 and 1999 Bilderberg meetings.
Education
He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra in 1963.[1]
Career
He began his professional career as an assistant professor of Public Finance and Political Economy at that faculty (1963-1967). In 1968, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the bank Banco Português do Atlântico (1968-1975), a position he held until the end of 1975.
He was then invited by the Minister of Finance, Dr. Salgado Zenha to exercise the functions of Secretary of State of the Treasury from 1975 until 1976.
After this experience, he was appointed vice-governor of Banco de Portugal (1977-1978) and returned to teach the disciplines of currency and credit, at the Regional Center of Porto of the Portuguese Catholic University (1979-1985), and Financial Economics, again at the University of Coimbra (1980-1982).
In the early 1980s, still with state banking, he was involved in the foundation of the Portuguese Investment Company, which would be the embryo of the current Banco BPI. For more than two decades, he held functions in that bank — he was chairman of the Executive Committee 1981-2004 and of the Board of Directors 2004-2015.
After several years as a member of the Board of Directors of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Partex Oil & Gas Holdings Corporation, main patron of that institution, on December 22, 2011 he was elected president of the Gulbenkian Foundation for the 2012-2017 term, having assumed the position between May 2, 2012, the date on which Rui Vilar's term ended[2].
He was president of the General Council of the University of Coimbra.
He also chaired the National Commission for the commemorations of the centenary of the Republic. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Serralves Foundation and held the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of the "Porto — European Capital of Culture 2001", having his name also linked to the Mário Soares Foundation, to Lugar do Desenho — Júlio Resende Foundation or to the board of founders of Casa da Música.[2]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1986 | 25 April 1986 | 27 April 1986 | Scotland Gleneagles Hotel | The 34th Bilderberg, 109 participants |
| Bilderberg/1999 | 3 June 1999 | 6 June 1999 | Portugal Sintra | The 47th Bilderberg, 111 participants |
