Meet Carlos

Carlos de Sousa joined Vontobel in January 2021. He is Emerging Markets Strategist and Portfolio Manager within Fixed Income.

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 specializing in economics, where he authored policy-oriented research with a focus on European economics. Earlier in his career, he worked as an economist at Ecoanalitica in Caracas, where he was responsible for macroeconomic forecasts for 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.