1. Jorge Vasconcellos e Sá has brazilian, french and portuguese ascendancy. He has a master's degree from the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management in California, where he studied with Peter Drucker. And a doctorate (PhD) in Business Administration, from Columbia University, in New York where he was a student and research and teaching assistant. He finished first in his class. Always in the Dean's list.
2. In 1997 he was awarded the Jean Monnet Chair (by the Jean Monnet Foundation at Brussels), the highest European academic award, and has in the past received several distinctions including Fulbright, Beta, Gamma and Sigma fellowships.
3. He also has two undergraduate degrees one in Economics (Technical University) and one in Business Administration (Catholic University) and a graduate degree in Macroeconomics from Gulbenkian Foundation.
4. He is currently a full professor (life tenure) and teaches at AESE (associated with Harvard linked IESE of Barcelona).
5. Vasconcellos e Sá is the President of the Portuguese Institute for Economic Freedom (which he founded in 2008), Director of External Relations of NOPA (National Organization of Portuguese-Americans) and founder of the spanish-angolan and angolan-spanish chambers of commerce (2012-).
6. His books have been translated into eleven languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin), Russian, Ukrainian, German, Lithuanian, Thai, Korean and Norwegian.
7. His books have received endorsements, among others, from Peter F. Drucker, Philip Kotler, Al Ries (author of the bestsellers Marketing Warfare and Positioning), Don Hambrick (Professor at Columbia University and The Pennsylvania State University), Karl Moore (Professor at Oxford and McGill University), Luiz Moutinho (Professor at Glasgow University) and so on.
8. Has published eighteen books:
9. Vasconcellos e Sá and his books were fourteen times front cover in some of the most important European business magazines: Exam (1993); Fortune (1999); Business & Ideas (2001 and 2003); Human Resources (2002); Marketeer (2002); Pure Management (2003); Premium (2004); Pure Economics (2005); Premium (2005); Business Digest (2005); Actualidad (2009); and Executive Digest (2009 and 2011).
10. Articles 10.1 over thirty articles in international academic reviews, such as Strategic Management Journal, European Management Journal, Long Range Planning, Industrial Marketing Management, Business, European Marketing Journal and Management Decision. 10.2. more than one hundred in newspapers and magazines specialised in economics and management in english, spanish and portuguese: Resident, Expansión, Fedecom, etc.11. Editorial column: since January 2007 alternates with the director of one of the largest southern European circulating economics newspaper (Vida Económica), in writing the director's column and a monthly collaboration in the Angolan newspaper Semanário Económico.
12. Has addressed conferences and given seminars at several international universities and institutions including London Business School, IESE, Glasgow Business School, ESSEC (France), ESSAM (European Consortium of Business Schools), Oxford, Manchester Business School, George Washington University, University of São Paulo, School of Economics and Drucker School. He also addressed conferences and presented articles in several academic meetings, namely Academy of Management, Western Economic Association, Peter Drucker Society of Europe, etc.
13. Vasconcellos e Sá was the Speaker of the Month in June 2008 of the International Association of Speakers Bureaus (IASB).
14. He has worked as a private consultant, has been a non-executive director and has taught in the executive programmes for
14.1. multinational companies such as: Coca-Cola, SHELL, Unisys, IBM, Price Waterhouse, Klynveld Peat Main Goerdeler, Glaxo, British Petroleum – BP, Dun & Bradstreet, Deloitte & Touche, Makro (Metro group), Systéme U, I.F.A, Intermarché, Mini Prix Bonjours, Accenture, Watson Wyatt, Cap Gemini, Cesce, Scottish & Newcastle, Sara Lee, Microsoft, Total, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Logica, Indra, Grandvision, Jafep, Euler Hermes, Cosec, etc.
14.2. Regional european governments, namely of Azores and Madeira;
14.3. The permanent commission of the EU in Brussels and the Phare and Tacis programs for the former Soviet Union countries and Eastern Europe and International Labour Organization (I.L.O.);
14.4. large companies, economic groups and banks such as:
Interfina, OPCA, Montepio Geral, Banco Português de Investimento, Tabaqueira, Grupo José Manuel de Mello, SAPEC, Banco Espírito Santo, Banco Pinto & Sotto Mayor, Banco Totta & Açores, Caixa Geral de Depósitos, CNR, Uniarme, EDP, Unicer, Group Banco Comercial Português, Pestana Group, Keve Bank, BPC (Banco Poupança e Crédito), BFA (Banco Fomento Angola), Portuguese Airlines, Banco Popular, etc.
14.5. Medium sized firms:
Kebir, Molde Faianças, Cesl, Coresa, Recer, Onara, Galtrailer, Auto-Sueco Coimbra, Fábrica de Tabaco Micaelense, etc.
14.6. Trade associations and Chambers of Commerce:
IFPMA (International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations), ASPI (American Association of Suppliers to the Paper Industry), EPTDA (European Power Transmission Distributors Association), Peter Drucker Society of Europe, Pharmaceutical Industry Associations, American Club, American, Dutch, Spanish and English Chambers of Commerce, CECAM (Spanish Confederation of Entrepreneurs), APAVT (travel agencies association), the Order of the Economists, NOPA (National Organization of Portuguese Americans), etc.
15. His office (Vasconcellos e Sá Associates S.A.) has developed professional activities in several countries, namely: United States, Macao, Angola, Mozambique, Portugal, Germany, England, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Brazil, Hungary, Bulgaria and Paraguay.
16. The office specializes in three types of activities: 1) research (conferences, articles, books, studies and the Institute for Economic Freedom); 2) managing the future company (the office operates as an outsourced department helping the CEO manage the future company – major internal and external changes to the corporation – while the rest of the staff manages the present company); and 3) mergers and acquisitions (corporate alliances and financing).
17. His hobbies are History, tennis and soccer. On the latter Vasconcellos e Sá holds a degree as a professional soccer coach (Level 1: first in his class among 97 candidates).
18. Jorge Vasconcellos (who is a member of several societies such as the European Drucker Society, etc.) speaks and writes Portuguese, Spanish, French, English and German. He is married and has three children.
European office:
Tel: (+351) 21 482 1563 / 21 484 1028 / 21 482 1544
Fax: (+351) 21 482 15 66
New York office:
Tel: (+1) 212 726 1169
Fax: (+1) 212 726 3169
E-mail : nop4867@mail.telepac.pt
