Lúcio Vinhas de Souza is since September 2024 the Director of the Economics Department and Chief Economist of BusinessEurope. Before that, he was a Visiting Professor at Brandeis University and a Fellow at Harvard University in the United States. Previously, Dr. Vinhas de Souza was an Advisor to the leadership of the European External Action Service, the Head of the Economics Department of an internal advisory body to the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Managing Director and Global Chief Economist of Moody’s Investors Service at its headquarters in New York City.

He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Masters and Bachelor degrees in economics from the NOVA University in Lisbon, Portugal. He has over a 100 different publications in several languages and has spoken in hundreds of events for diverse audiences around the world.