Carlos Duarte Almeida is currently the Head of Financial Markets Operations at Banco BPI. He previously served as the Head of the Trading Room at the
Portuguese Debt Management Office (IGCP). Earlier, he was a senior portfolio manager at MATH Fund, an hedge fund focused on Macro, Arbitrage and
asset-allocation strategies, while assuming the same position at ST^2 Fund, where he developed and implemented short and medium-term systematic
trading strategies. In between these roles, he worked at BNP Paribas as a Counterparty Credit Risk Analyst. Carlos is also an Adjunct Assistant
Professor at Nova School of Business Economics where he lectures the course of Hedge Funds. He holds a postgraduate degree in Financial
Mathematics from ISCTE/Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa and a degree in Business Administration and Management from Católica Lisbon SBE.