Ricardo Amorim is a Brazilian

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. He was described as "Brazil's "most influential economist" by ''

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'' magazine. Amorim is the author of ''After the Storm''. He is a former host of

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at Globonews, the only Brazilian among the lecturers at Speakers Corner and the winner of the “Most Admired in the Economy, Business and Finance Press”. Winner of the iBest Award for best contest of Brazil in 2020 and 2021 on three differents categories: Economy and Business, Linkedin Influencer and Opinion and Citizenship.https://premioibest.com/

Career

Amorim holds a B.A. in economics from the

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and conducted graduate work in International Finance and Business at ESSEC Business School in Paris. He is one of the hosts of the roundtable TV show ''Manhattan Connection'' on GloboNews, and is an economics and financial markets columnist at '' ISTOÉ'' Magazine. He was one of the few economists to anticipate Brazil's electricity crisis in 2001, the US real estate and financial crisis in 2008, Emerging Markets’ decoupling from the 2009 global financial crisis and Europe's 2011/2012 sovereign crisis. Following a twenty-year career in financial institutions in the US, Brazil and Europe, he returned to Brazil in 2008 after eight years working in

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. In Brazil, he started Ricam Consultoria, a financial consulting firm that advises on economics, finance, investment and strategy.

Awards and recognition

In 2015, he was included by ''Forbes'' in its list of the "100 most influential Brazilians".

References

External links

Ricam Consultoria
Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Brazilian economists Brazilian television presenters Brazilian journalists University of São Paulo alumni ESSEC Business School alumni {{Brazil-business-bio-stub