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Manuel Pinho
International Affairs Building, Room
1506
Visiting Professor
Phone: 212-854-4307
mp2968@columbia.edu
Biography:
Manuel Pinho has been a visiting professor at SIPA since 2011. In 2012, he was a Senior Fellow of the Jackson Institute at Yale and taught energy policy at SIPA, the Yale School of Management, Renmin University and Beijing Foreign Studies University.
He is the director of the International Energy MBA at the Lisbon Institute, Vice Chairman of BES Africa, Senior International advisor at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, and a member of the International Advisory Board of Gamesa.
From 2005-09, he served as Minister of Economy and Innovation of the Portuguese Government and a member of Parliament. In 2007, he was Acting President of the European Council of Energy and Competitiveness Ministers and of the Transatlantic Council. Pinho is the author of the background paper Europe's New Energy Era, on which the European Strategic Plan for Energy is inspired..
From 1994–2004, he was a member of the executive board of Banco Espírito Santo responsible for debt capital markets, and from 1990–1994, served as General Director of the Treasury and Chairman of the Public Debt Board at the Ministry of Finance. In that capacity, he served at the EU Monetary Committee.
Previously, he was an economist at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. He holds a BA in Economics from the Technical University of Lisbon and a doctoral degree from the University of Paris X.
Has been awarded honors by the governments of Germany, Spain, France, Sweden, and Norway.
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