António Mendo de Castel-Branco do Amaral Osório Borges (18 November 1949 – 25 August 2013) was a Portuguese economist and banker. He was also a Managing Director and International Adviser of

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Biography

Early years to year 2000

Borges was born in Ramalde,

Porto Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...

. He received his bachelor's degree in economics from the Technical University of Lisbon in 1972, and his

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from

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. In 1980 he received his

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in Economics from Stanford University. Later Borges taught at INSEAD. He returned to

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in 1990, where he served as Vice Governor of the

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while teaching at the Nova School of Business and Economics at the

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. While Vice Governor of the Banco de Portugal, Borges took a leading role in the liberalization of Portugal's financial system. From 1993 to 2000 Borges served as a director and dean at INSEAD.

2000 to 2010

In 2000 Borges relocated to

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, where he became Executive Vice Chairman of

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, responsible for Strategy, Investment Banking and Leadership Development. In this period Borges was a Director of Citibank Portugal,

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, Sonae, Jerónimo Martins, Cimpor,

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, Novartis Venture Funds,

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, Banco Santander de Negocios, Caixa Seguros, Scor, S.P.G.S and Heidrick & Struggles. Borges left his post as Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs International in 2008, while continuing as a Managing Director of

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and as an International Advisor of Goldman Sachs. After his departure, Borges served as Chairman of the Statutory Fiscal Board of Banco Santander de Negócios Portugal, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Banco Santander de Negocios Portugal, Chairman of the

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, and Chairman of the

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Ltd. He was also a member of the Supervisory Boards of Novartis Venture Fund and CNP Assurances SA, the Advisory Board of Critical Links SA, and the Board of Governors of

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. He was simultaneously an adviser to the

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, the

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, the

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, and the

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on the establishment of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Borges was also an adviser to the Portuguese government, and a professor at the Institute of Economics and Business at the Catholic University of Portugal. A member of the

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(PSD), Borges was Vice Chairman of the National Policy Committee of the PSD from 2008 to 2010.

2010 and death

In November 2010, Borges was appointed Director of the European Department of the

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. In November 2011 he was appointed by the new

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to oversee the

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measures, renogitations of

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s and restructuring of state-owned enterprises and the banking sector. These are measures negotiated with a troika composed of the

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, the

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and the International Monetary Fund as preconditions for monetary aid to Portugal. On 25 August 2013, Borges died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 63.Morreu António Borges
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Borges, Antonio 1949 births 2013 deaths Central bankers Goldman Sachs people Academic staff of INSEAD International Monetary Fund people People from Porto Portuguese bankers 20th-century Portuguese economists Portuguese politicians Social Democratic Party (Portugal) politicians Stanford University alumni Stanford University faculty Technical University of Lisbon alumni Academic staff of NOVA University Lisbon Deaths from cancer in Portugal Deaths from pancreatic cancer Portuguese officials of the United Nations Portuguese people of Italian descent