Meet Carlos

Carlos de Sousa joined Vontobel Asset Management in January 2021 as Emerging Markets Strategist and Portfolio Manager.

Before joining Vontobel, he was Lead Emerging Markets Economist at Oxford Economics, a leading organization in global forecasting and quantitative analysis. Prior to that, he was a research fellow at Bruegel in Brussels; a think tank specialized in economics, where he authored policy-oriented research with a focus on European economics. Earlier in his career, he worked as Economist at Ecoanalitica in Caracas, where he was responsible for macroeconomic forecasts of Venezuela and several Caribbean and Central American countries.

Carlos holds a Master’s degree in Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and a Master’s degree in Philosophy of Economics, from Erasmus University Rotterdam.