Athena School of Management welcomes Fernando Costa Freire to our International Advisory Board. Fernando has diverse professional and personal interests and has attempted to dedicate time to several of them throughout his life. He started his career at the United Nations Security Council and worked in several posts in the UN Department of Political Affairs for almost a decade, including on peacekeeping missions in Africa and in the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. He was later the coordinator of the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union at the UN. He was diplomatic advisor to two Portuguese Prime Ministers. Having left public service, he has been involved in several different business ventures over the last fifteen years. He set up in 2005 Edeluc Investment Consulting a business consultancy focused on China, presently active in particular on investments advisory, he served as a non-executive Board Member of Aman Bank and Board Member of MSF Qatar.
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