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António Neto da Silva
CEO
Financetar, SA
Born 29.11.1948 |
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- Degree in Economics from the
Economics Faculty - Oporto University, graduating with
the highest classification in his course.
- MA
(Distinction) in Contemporary European Studies (Economics)
from Reading University, UK. (Studies furthered through
British Council Scholarship).
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| Business & Academic
Career: |
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- Founding shareholder and Chairman of the Board of
FINANCETAR, Sociedade de Serviços Financeiros, Empresariais e
Imobiliários, S.A (Financial, Business and Real
Estate Services).
- Founder
and CEO of portugaloffer.com, an Internet
portal for Portugal’s leading business groups,
which is the best known Portuguese Website worldwide.
- A
major shareholder and Chairman of the Board of Deimos
Engenharia, S.A., an engineering company operating
in the space industry, whose main customer is the European
Space Agency (ESA).
- Chairman of PROESPAÇO, the
Portuguese Association of Space Industries.
- Chairman of
the AAPEUA, the Portugal-US
Friendship Association.
- Chairman of the AAPT, the Portugal-Tunisia
Friendship Association
- Member of the General
Board of COTEC.
- Full
member of the BANIF-Banco Internacional do
Funchal, SA Audit Board
- Full
member of the BANIF-SGPS, SA Audit
Board
- Professor
at Portuguese Catholic University (Lisbon) lecturing
on
“Sustainable Development”, as part of the Master's and Ph.D
courses in European Studies
- Visiting Professor at Portugal’s
Higher Institute of Financial and Business Studies (IESF),
giving seminars on courses for Young Entrepreneurs of
Special Potential, as well as the Advanced Management
Course on the topic, “Management
in the 21st Century”.
- Member
of the Consultative Board of Portugal’s Higher
Institute of Financial and Business Studies (IESF).
- Columnist
for Diário
Económico, Portugal’s leading financial
newspaper.
- Vice-Chairman
of Clube Via Norte.
- Deputy Chairman of BUSINESS ANGELS
CLUB – an
association of investors in start-ups.
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| Political & Other
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- Secretary
of State for Foreign Trade from April 24, 1990 to
October 31, 1991. As holder of this office, was:
- Chief
negotiator for the FORD-VOLKSWAGEN project, a
$3-billion investment project, the negotiations on
which were successfully completed on 07.06.91
- Negotiator
for Portugal’s textile sector at the European
Community’s Council of Ministers during the
Uruguay Round.
- Head
of the campaign to promote Portugal’s image
abroad.
- Head
of negotiations for all foreign investment projects
in Portugal, which totaled more than €50 million.
- Chairman
of the Committee for External Relations, Trade Policy
and Cooperation of the Economic and Social Committee
of the EEC and EURATOM (1988-1990)
- Member of the Consultative Board of BANIF - Banco
Internacional do Funchal, S.A. (1992-2003)
- Member
of the Presidents’ Board of the Confederation
of Portuguese Industry (CIP).
- Executive
Director of the postgraduate course in European Economics
at the Portuguese Catholic University – Oporto
- covering Trade Policy and External Relations and
European Community Financial Instruments.
- Adviser
to the European Community’s Economic and
Social Committee and to the European Atomic Energy
Community (1986-1990).
- Lecturer
at the Economics Faculty – Oporto University,
on Project Planning and Evaluation and as Chair
for Economic Integration and International Institutions
(1976-1984).
- Professor
at the Portuguese Catholic University - Lisbon
- as Chair for European Regional Development Problems
and Policies, as well as the postgraduate course
in European Studies (economics option) and European
Economics (law option) (1980 to 1989).
- Director
of services for the Confederation of Portuguese Industry
(CIP) for the northern region (1981-1983).
- CIP
representative on the Consultative Committee for European
Integration, until May 1983.
- Vice-Chairman
of ICEP – Portugal’s Institute of Foreign
Trade from May 1983 to 1984.
- Manager
of TRADINGPOR - Empresa de Comércio Externo
de Portugal (Foreign Trading), SARL (1984 and 1985).
- Economic
Consultant to IPE - Investimentos e Participações
do Estado (state holding company), S.A.
- Manager
of SML – Vestuário (clothing company)
(1985-1988)
- Founding shareholder and Chairman of the Board
of SOCIFA, SA. (1988 – 1990).
- Organizer of the Syndicate
of Investors, Shareholder, and Chairman of CLÍNICA
PARTICULAR DO PORTO (a private clinic in Oporto), now
owned by the Mundial-Confiança
insurance company (1992 to May 1995).
- Member of the National
Council of the Social Democrat Party (PSD) from 1998
to 2002.
Has published numerous books and studies on economics,
European integration and regional development, including
the following:
- Antonio Neto da Silva, O Triplo Conflito
- Globalização,
Fundamentalismo Islâmico e Desenvolvimento Sustentavel,
Booknomics, Lisbon 2007
- Antonio Neto da Siva and Luís
Rego - Teoria e Pratica da Integração
Económica,
Porto Editora, Oporto 1984
As a speaker, has participated and continues to participate
in numerous economic conferences and seminars in Portugal
and abroad. |
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