João Moreira Rato is a Visiting Associate Professor at Nova SBE and at Nova IMS, teaching courses in sovereign advisory, portfolio management and derivatives. He is also a research associate at the Systemic Risk Centre at the LSE.
João has been acting Chairman of Banco CTT since 2019. He has been as senior advisor for Morgan Stanley since 2015 and has been consulting for other international firms. From 2016 to 2020, he has worked, with Oliver Wyman, on the set-up and build-up of Kuwait´s Debt Management office and on an evaluation of Abu Dhabi´s DMO. From 2012 to 2014, during the European sovereign debt crisis, he was the Chairman and CEO of the Portuguese Debt and Treasury Management Office. In that role, he was responsible for designing and successfully executing a strategy that brought Portugal back to the sovereign debt markets.
He worked in London in Fixed Income at different investment banks, including Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley, from 2000 to 2012.He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago. João Moreira Rato is the author of the book The European Debt Crisis: How Portugal Navigated the post-2008 Financial Crisis, published by Palgrave Macmillan.