Manuel Pinho

Quick Facts

Full Name	Manuel Pinho
Occupation	Economist
Date Of Birth	Oct 28, 1954(1954-10-28)
Age	70
Birthplace	Lisbon
Country	Portugal
Birth City	Lisbon District
Horoscope	Libra

Manuel Pinho Biography

Manuel Pinho is one of the most popular and richest Economist who was born on October 28, 1954 in Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal. Portuguese politician and economist, who was Minister of Economy and Innovation between 2005 and 2009. He spent his entire career in banking and international institutions before he entered politics.

He was born in Lisbon, just like TV host Joao Menzarra.

Manuel António Gomes de Almeida de Pinho (born 28 October 1954) is a Portuguese former Minister of Economy and Innovation (2005–09) subsequently indicted in 2017 and in 2019 on multiple charges of passive corruption and money laundering for having improperly benefited, by at least 1.2 billion euros, Portugal’s EDP-Energias de Portugal electricity company in exchange for it paying Columbia University to hire Pinho after he left government; and for having received, also while in office, at least 4.5 million euros in secret monthly offshore payments from his previous and subsequent boss Ricardo Espírito Santo Salgado whose Espírito Santo Financial Group benefited, according to Pinho’s indictment, from several of Pinho’s decisions as minister.

Prior to becoming a banker in the early 1990s, Pinho had taught economics at Lisbon’s Economics Institute and at the Portuguese Catholic University. He returned to academia in 2010 when the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University hired him as an Energy Policy Visiting Professor following a “multi-year gift” from EDP-Energias de Portugal as disclosed by SIPA in its 2010, 2011, and 2012 Annual Reports. Pinho has also been a visiting professor at Georgetown University, a senior fellow of the Jackson Institute, Yale University, director of the Lisbon University Institute’s energy MBA, a guest professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University, and at Renmin University of China.

He was married to Alexandra da Fonseca.

Manuel Pinho Net Worth

Manuel Pinho is one of the richest Economist from Portugal. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Manuel Pinho 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1975, he graduated from the Technical University of Lisbon.

He was the reason Portugal became a leader in renewable energies.

Pinho was born in Lisbon in 1954 and graduated from the Technical University of Lisbon in 1975. He obtained a Doctorat de Spécialité (3e cycle) in economics at the Université Paris X Nanterre in 1982, which he holds as equivalent to a Ph.D. He returned to Portugal to teach at the Technical University of Lisbon and the Catholic University of Portugal; and in 1985 went to work as a staff economist at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. He returned to Portugal in 1988 to become a management-level banker at the Portuguese subsidiaries of Manufacturers Hanover and Credit Lyonnais. Between 1991 and 1994, Pinho was Director-General of the Portuguese Treasury and his tenure coincided with the second and final stage of the privatization of Banco Espírito Santo, which he joined right after he resigned from the Treasury in 1994.

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Who is Manuel Pinho Dating?

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In a 2006 interview about his personal life, Pinho publicly acknowledged that he was an avid collector of photography and revealed that “after he returned from America” in 1988 he had a near death auto accident that has since limited his mobility. Pinho also revealed a passion for dancing when he said that, despite the accident, he “could still dance and loved to do it.” In another interview in 2005, he had revealed he was a lifelong supporter of Lisbon-based football team S.L. Benfica.

Facts & Trivia

Manuel Ranked on the list of most popular Economist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Portugal. Manuel Pinho celebrates birthday on October 28 of every year.

On 2 July 2009, Pinho resigned as minister following an outburst in the Portuguese Parliament during the State of the Nation debate when he held his index fingers to his temples and mimicked a bull’s horns in a cuckolding gesture directed at a communist parliamentarian who heckled him. Facing outcries of disrespectful conduct, at first Pinho tried to keep his job and apologized indirectly, but he was forced to resign two hours later after meeting behind closed doors with his Cabinet colleague, the minister of Parliamentary Affairs. That same night, Pinho apologized on national TV followed by Portugal’s prime minister, Sócrates, who apologized “on behalf of the government” and by Portugal’s president Anibal Cavaco Silva who stated publicly that “institutional respect is a sacred principle of democracy.”