Marcos Souto

Financial Sector Expert, International Monetary Fund

With over 25 years of professional experience, Mr. Souto started his career as a Mechanical Engineer and later as a tenured professor at a Brazilian University, following the conclusion of his graduate studies on computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer. In 2000, Mr. Souto moved to the US to pursue a Ph.D. in Finance at the George Washington University, with a supporting field on Quantitative Methods applied to Finance, where he devoted most of his time developing research on the assessment of integrated market and credit risk for banks. Since 2004, Mr. Souto has been working at the International Monetary Fund, as financial sector expert, focusing mostly on integrated risk assessment of sovereign, banks, and corporate sector balance sheets for more than 30 countries, including Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, Portugal, Nigeria, and Iran.