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Álvaro Sobrinho
Álvaro de Oliveira Madaleno Sobrinho (born 1962) is a Portuguese-Angolan banker and businessman who built his career in Portugal. He was a director at the Portuguese bank Banco Espírito Santo, which went bankrupt in 2014. Sobrinho later led Banco Valor Angola, investing in several businesses in Africa, and invested in the sports club Sporting CP and in two Portuguese newspapers. He also founded the Planet Earth Institute Foundation in Mauritius in partnership with the President of Mauritius. Early life and education Sobrinho was born in Angola and moved to Portugal to study mathematics and statistics at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. While in Portugal, he was mentored by Ricardo Salgado. Career After a decade with Grupo Banco Espírito Santo, Sobrinho became a director of Banco Espírito Santo (BES) in Lisbon at age 38. He later contributed to establishing its Angolan subsidiary. In 2013, Sobrinho assumed the role of Executive chairman at Banco Valor Angola. He later step ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luanda
Luanda ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Angola, largest city of Angola. It is Angola's primary port, and its major industrial, cultural and urban centre. Located on Angola's northern Atlantic coast, Luanda is Angola's administrative centre, its chief seaport, and also the capital of the Luanda Province. Luanda and its metropolitan area is the most populous Portuguese-speaking capital city in the world and the most populous Lusophone city outside Brazil. In 2020 the population reached more than 8.3 million inhabitants (a third of Angola's population). Among the oldest colonial cities of Africa, Luanda was founded in January 1576 as ''São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda'' by Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais, being occasionally called "Leonda" or "St Paul de Leonda" by non-Portuguese sources. The city served as the centre of the Slavery in Angola, slave trade to Brazil before the institution was prohibited. At the start of the Angolan Civil W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
