{"id":90358,"date":"2020-09-14T08:59:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T08:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flad.pt\/?p=90358"},"modified":"2020-09-14T09:05:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T09:05:10","slug":"carlos-moedas-in-the-atlantic-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flad.pt\/en\/carlos-moedas-in-the-atlantic-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Moedas in the Atlantic Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our guest at Atlantic Talks this week is Carlos Moedas, an Engineer by academic background, a Politician during one of the most complicated periods in the country’s recent history, and former European Commissioner.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

From Alentejo to Lisbon, with passages through Boston and Brussels, the life of Carlos Moedas has been made of changes. He graduated in Engineering from the Instituto Superior T\u00e9cnico<\/a> in Lisbon but then went into Management, getting an MBA at the Harvard University<\/a> in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

After working at Goldman Sachs<\/a> and Deutsche Bank<\/a>, he devoted himself to politics. A Social Democrat, he would become Assistant Secretary of State to Prime-Minister Pedro Passos Coelho during the rescue of the Troika. He was the liaison between the Portuguese Government and the group composed of the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission, and the European Central Bank.<\/p>\n

The work as ruler earned him the appointment to European Commissioner for Research, Science, and Innovation, where he managed one of the largest financial envelopes ever allocated to this area until today.<\/p>\n

And that’s the great passion he demonstrates. For Science, and for Europe, in this conversation with Filipe Santos Costa.<\/p>\n