Director Ana Paula Serra
Ana Paula de Sousa Freitas Madureira Serra
Member of the Board of Directors of Banco de Portugal.
She graduated in Economics at the University of Porto (1988); she has an MBA from Instituto Superior de Estudos Empresariais, now Porto Business School (University of Porto) (1990) and a PhD in Finance (Financial Economics) from London Business School (University of London) (1999).
She was appointed Member of the Board of Directors in September 2017.
She was a Member of the Board of Auditors of Banco de Portugal (2014-2017); Vice-Dean (2015-2017) at the School of Economics and Management of the University of Porto; Vice-Dean and Director of Executive Education at Porto Business School (2009-2015); She taught BSc., MSc and PhD programmes at the School of Economics and Management of the University of Porto (1987-2017) and was Programme Director of the MSc. in Finance (2005-2007), Programme Committee member (2000-2003) and Programme Director (2004-2010) of the MSc. in Management Sciences. At Porto Business School she taught MBA, Post-Graduate and Executive Education programmes (2000-2017) and was Director of the Post-Graduate Programme in Financial Analysis (2003-2017) and the Post-Graduate Programme in Real Estate Management (2003-2017). She was Member of the Academic Board of EGP – Porto Business School (2008-2009); Member of the Board of Auditors of Banco Português de Investimento (2012-2014); Financial Analyst and Portfolio Manager at the Research and Portfolio Management Department (1990-1993) and Technical Advisor to the Management Control Department of Banco Português de Investimento (1988-1989); Member of the Board of Directors of the Portuguese Association of Financial Analysts (APAF) (1992-1993; 2012-2015). She is a faculty member at the School of Economics and Management of the University of Porto since 1999, and Researcher at the Centre for Research in Economics and Finance (cef.up) since 2000. She has published various works in her areas of expertise. She was a member of the Advisory Board of the Portuguese Treasury and Government Debt Agency (IGCP) (July 2015 - September 2017).
Date | Meeting / Event | Location |
5-10 May 2019 | Participation in the 14th Annual International Operational Risk Working Group (IORWG) Conference
| Central Bank of Chile Santiago |
14 May 2019 | Opening ceremony of the “(Euro)policies– contemporary photography since 1999” exhibition | BdP Lisbon |
16 May 2019 | Dinner with the ECB’s Supervisory Board | BdP Lisbon |
17 May 2019 | Participation in the 9th Conference of the Central Balance-Sheet Database – “The buoyancy of the corporate sector in inland Portugal” | University Beira Interior Covilhã |
20 May 2019 | Meeting with the ECB’s Chief Compliance and Governance Officer – Ethics Awareness Roadshow | BdP Lisbon |
24 May 2019 | Participation in the “Portugal – from here to where?” conference | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon |
27 May 2019 | Meeting with EDP, innovation strategy | BdP Lisbon |
31 May 2019 | Meeting with INDEG-ISCTE, institutional issues | BdP Lisbon |
Date | Meeting / Event | Location |
5 April 2019 | Speaker at the II Symposium “As mulheres e as Finanças no século XXI” | Auditorium of the Almeida Garrett Municipal Library, Porto |
8 April 2019 | Meeting with members of the Evaluation Committee overseeing the Management Bodies and Key Functions of Banco de Portugal’s Pension Fund Management Company, institutional issues | BdP Lisbon |
11 April 2019 | Meeting with representatives of the Banking Trade Union of the North, institutional issues | BdP Lisbon |
29 April 2019 | Meeting with representatives of Odgers Berndtson, institutional issues | BdP Lisbon |
Date | Meeting / Event | Location |
8 March 2019 | Meeting with the Chief Economist of the OECD, Laurence Boone, current economic issues | BdP Lisbon |
13-15 March 2019 | Working visits to the Portuguese industry | North Region |
18 March 2019 | Opening of the temporary exhibition: “Fine Arts of the Academy. Today” | BdP Lisbon |
21 March 2019 | Meeting with the President of Statistical Portugal’s Administration Board, Francisco Lima, and with a member of Statistical Portugal’s Administration Board, Carlos Coimbra, institutional issues | Statistics Portugal Lisbon |
22 March 2019 | Meeting with FEBASE’s negotiating group, institutional issues | BdP Lisbon |
25 March 2019 | Participation in the Joint Banco de Portugal and IMF conference on “Portugal: Reform and Growth Within the Euro Area” | BdP Lisbon |
27 March 2019 | Banco de Portugal’s Advisory Board | BdP Lisbon |
28 March 2019 | General Meeting of Valora, S.A. | BdP Carregado |
29 March 2019 | General Meeting of Banco de Portugal’s Pension Fund Management Company | SGFP Lisbon |
Date | Meeting / Event | Location |
4 February 2019 | Participation as moderator at the 8th Conference of the Central Balance Sheet Database “The buoyancy of the corporate sector” | BdP Lisbon |
14-15 February 2019 | Joint Conference Bundesbank-ECB on Human Resources | Bundesbank Frankfurt |
Date | Meeting / Event | Location |
9 January 2019 | Lunch with NOVA SBE - NOVA School of Business and Economics, institutional issues | BdP Lisbon |
11 January 2019 | Meeting with Statistics Portugal, institutional issues | BdP Lisbon |
21 January 2019 | Joint BdP/EIB Conference - Investment, innovation and digitalization: the Portuguese case | BdP Lisbon |