Director Helena Adegas
Helena Adegas

Member of the Board of Directors of Banco de Portugal since 1 December 2022, having joined this institution in 1985.
She was formerly Head of the Markets Department at the Banco de Portugal (2017-2022) and Head of the Risk Management Department (2012-17), Managing Director of the Banco de Portugal’s Sociedade Gestora dos Fundos de Pensões (Pension Funds Managing Company) and Head of the Deposit Guarantee Fund’s Support Unit (2002-12). In the Foreign Department, she was Head of the Reserve Management Division, the Analysis and Forecasting Unit and the Foreign Exchange Unit. Within the Eurosystem, she served on the Market Operations Committee and was a member of the Risk Management Committee and the Working Group on Foreign Reserve Assets, from 2017 until November 2022. From 2011 to 2014, she was a member of the Board of the Portuguese Economists’ Association.
She has an Economics Degree from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, two post-graduate degrees in European Studies and Bank Management from the same university, and an MBA from INSEAD.
Date | Description | Location |
16-17 February 2023 | Annual meeting with the Heads of District Agencies | Açores Regional Delegation of the Banco de Portugal |
17 February 2023 | Address at the signing ceremony of the joint action plan of the social security institute in Azores (Instituto da Segurança Social dos Açores, IPRA) and the Banco de Portugal | Conceição Palace, Ponta Delgada |
Date | Description | Location |
5 January 2023 | Universidade de Lisboa Award 2020 prize-giving ceremony, presented to António Guterres | Rector’s Office of Universidade de Lisboa |
10 January 2023 | Prize-giving ceremony for the Professor Jacinto Nunes Award 2022 | Money Museum |
20 January 2023 | BdP Mais Próximo | Faro |
Date | Description | Location |
6 December 2022 | Opening of the temporary exhibition: ‘Sea of identities: Gulbenkian’s numismatic treasures’ | Money Museum |