THE FILTER – Art Pathways

João Moreira Rato is currently a senior advisor for Morgan Stanley and is the President of the Portuguese Institute for Corporate Governance, a consultant for sovereign debt issuing and derivatives, as well as a teacher at Nova School of Business and Economics and Nova IMS. He is also a Research Associate for the Centre of Systemic Risk at LSE. He was Chairman of CTT bank, non-executive director of Omtel, and has worked with Oliver Wyman in the set-up and build-up of the department for debt management of the Ministry of Finance of Kuwait, where he was an integral part of the first debt issuing of the country. He was also part of the team that analysed the structure of Abu Dhabi’s sovereign debt In 2014 he was the financial director for Banco Espírito Santo during the transition to Novobanco. Between 2012 and 2014 he was the Chairman and CEO of the Treasury and Public Debt Management Agency. In this role, he was responsible for the strategy to return to the medium and long-term public debt markets and for its successful implementation. Between 2000 and 2012 he worked in investment banking for such banks as Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, and Morgan Stanley. He was also a founding member of a Hedge Fund specialised in Global macro. He has a Doctorate from Chicago Booth and a Masters and Bachelors from the Universidade Nova in Lisbon. He is the author of the book: “The European Debt Crisis: How Portugal Navigated the post-2008 Financial Crisis”, published by Palgrave Macmillan in December 2020.