BIO

Rui Barros is CEO and board member of Absa Bank Moçambique S.A. and non-executive director of Global Alliance (a leading insurance company in Mozambique, part of Absa Group). He has almost 20 years of diverse financial services experience, with the last 10 focused on Africa. Previously, he served as director of structured finance for Lehman Brothers and as credit analyst at Fitch Ratings, and later held executive positions as head of risk at Standard Bank in Mozambique and Atlantico Europa in Portugal. He has also lectured in financial markets at several Portuguese universities in post-graduate programs. He graduated in economics at UTAD and holds an MSc in finance from the Portuguese Catholic University.