Luis Fernando Eleutério Lopes

Luis Fernando Eleutério Lopes is Partner & Chief Economist. Mr. Lopes is primarily responsible for supporting the firm’s diversified investment activities in Latin America. Mr. Lopes joined the group in 1996, when he held the same position at Banco Patrimônio, the predecessor of Patria. From 1997 to 2003, Mr. Lopes was the Chief Economist and Strategist for Brazil at JP Morgan Chase, Chase Securities and Salomon Brothers. From 1990 to 1996, before working in the financial markets, Mr. Lopes was the Chief Economist and a Partner at MCM Consultores Associados and Tendências Consultoria Integrada, Brazil’s most prominent economic consultancy firms. Mr. Lopes holds a bachelor’s in economics Summa Cum Laude and a master’s degree in Economics Magna Cum Laude from the College of Economics and Business Administration of the Universidade de São Paulo. He is an authorized investment adviser by the Brazilian Security & Exchange Commission (CVM) and by the British Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).