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Fernando B. Sotelino
International Affairs Building
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
fs2174@columbia.edu
Biography:
Fernando B. Sotelino teaches courses in international finance and banking strategy at SIPA.
He is also director of the strategic advisory boards of Brasilpar Ltd. (Brazil) and Banco Finantia (Portugal). He was co-CEO and Wholesale Banking Group Head of Unibanco (Brazil's third largest private sector bank) from 1998 to 2004, after having been in charge of the bank’s international and investment banking divisions from 1991 to 1998. He also served as Chairman of the Board of Unibanco’s international banking and brokerage subsidiaries in the U.K. and the U.S.
Prior to joining Unibanco, he spent five years (1986-1991) with Citibank, as managing director responsible for the bank's M&A advisory, privatization and private equity activities in Brazil, and seven years (1979-1986) with Crocker Bank (San Francisco, California), dedicated to corporate advisory and project financing situations in the U.S., Latin America and Asia. Before embracing his banking career, he was Associate Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1977-1978).
Professor Sotelino’s most recent publications are The Financial Services Industry, in The Brazilian State: Paths and Prospects of Dirigisme and Liberalization, Font M. and Randall, L. editors, Lexington Books, New York, 2011, Elasticities of Stock Prices in Emerging Markets, with Favero, L., in The Impact of The Global Financial Crisis on Emerging Markets, Thornton, R. and Aronson, R. editors, Emerald Publishers, 2011, and How to Minimize Incentives to Rating-Centered Regulatory Arbitrage, with Gonzalez, R. and Savoia, J., Journal of Business and Policy Research, Vol.7, No.1, April 2012. He is currently working on a new book, International Banking for a New Century (Routledge) for publication in 2013, in co-authorship with Professor Irene Finel-Honigman.
He holds a joint M.A. in Economics and MBA from Stanford University, and M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He also serves on the International and Comparative Law Programs Advisory Board of the Vermont Law School.