- Director of the Economics Department and Chief Economist of BusinessEurope
- Lúcio Vinhas de Souza has been Director of the Economics Department and Chief Economist of BusinessEurope since September 2024. Before that, he was a Visiting Professor at Brandeis University and a Fellow at Harvard University in the United States. Previously, Dr Vinhas de Souza was an Advisor to the leadership of the European External Action Service, Head of the Economics Department of an internal advisory body to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, and Managing Director and Global Chief Economist of Moody's Investors Service at its headquarters in New York City. He holds a PhD in Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Economics from NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal. He has over 100 publications in several languages and has spoken at hundreds of events for diverse audiences around the world.
