Lucio Vinhas de Souza

•Co-manages the MIS’s 60-plus global sovereign risk team. •Engaging in very high level interactions with counterparts in the 140-plus Moody’s rated Sovereigns and multilateral bodies (including those of all European Union and Euro Area authorities and the national governments of EU member states and also of all systemically important emerging economies).

•Coordinator of the analysis and forecasting for developed economies (including EU/euro area) and for the CIS/CEE region (the “Europe and Central Asia” –ECA– region at the World Bank) at DECPG. •Prepare special reports and briefings for the World Bank upper management (as well as for its Board), including on EU/euro area sovereign fiscal crisis and ECA matters. •Provider of cross-support for country teams in the WB’s ECA region (EU-10, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine).

•Co-developed, managed and organized the regular framework for “Macroeconomic and Financial Policy Dialogue” between the Russian Government and the EC. Also member of the EU-Russia “FDI Dialogue” and of the “Russia Negotiation Network” (RNN), responsible for the negotiation of the new EU-Russia Agreement at European Commission. •Responsible for the preparation of forecasts for the Russian/Western CIS economies. •Responsible for the preparation of MFA (Macro Financial Assistance) support packages.

•Conducted economic research, and managed and advised research personnel and projects (financed by the EU, World Bank, ECB, Bundesbank, USAID). Main research areas: Macroeconomics, Financial, Monetary and International Economics.