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Antonio horta osorio biography for kids

          With more than 25 years of experience in retail and commercial banking, António Horta-Osório has built an impressive international banking career.

        1. With more than 25 years of experience in retail and commercial banking, António Horta-Osório has built an impressive international banking career.
        2. Sir António Horta-Osório holds a degree in management and business administration from the Catholic University of Lisbon, as well as an MBA from INSEAD, and.
        3. Sir António Mota de Sousa Horta-Osório (born 28 January ) is a Portuguese-British banker.
        4. The year-old Lisbon-born businessman likes diving with sharks and has done hundreds of scuba dives.
        5. Born in , Mr. Horta-Osório is a graduate of management and business administration at Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
        6. Sir António Mota de Sousa Horta-Osório (born 28 January ) is a Portuguese-British banker..


          António de Sousa Horta Sarmento Osório, 1882-1960.

           

          António Horta Osório was a Portuguese disciple (at a distance) of the Lausanne School.

          Born in Lousa, the son of a noble family, Osorio took his degree in law at the University of Coimbra in 1908.  A curious man with vast interests, Osorio was a notable lawyer (he would assist the Bank of Portugal during the great Alves do Reis fraud case of 1925), an early automobile fanatic and Olympic fencer. 

          In 1911, the new republican government authorized the formation of the University of Lisbon, gathering within it various older schools, including the Escola Politécnica de Lisboa (what would later be renamed the Faculty of Sciences).  Hoping to secure an appointment to the chair in political economy, Osorio presented a candidacy thesis on the mathematical theory of exchange (1911).  Osorio's candidacy failed before the conservative appointment committee, who preferred a more-established juristic-literary emp