Fernando Neves de Almeida

Senior Partner

Portugal

Fernando Neves de Almeida is the Country President of Boyden Portugal, as well as an International Partner and the Lisbon Office’s Senior Partner since 1997.

He has a Degree in Hotel Management at Universidade Internacional, a Degree in Human Resources Management and Work Psychology at ISLA Campus Lisboa and a MBA and Master Degree in Management at Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

Fernando began his career as a salesman of industrial products for an industrial company, working his way up to the position of Sales Manager followed by Marketing Manager. He then became the General Manager of a computer technology company. In 1991, he established Neves de Almeida Consultants, Lda., a group of consulting companies based in Lisbon where he retains the position of Non-Executive President.

In addition to his professional achievements, he is an accomplished author of several management and psychology books: Psicologia para Gestores(Psychology for Managers) and Avaliação de Desempenho para Gestores(Performance Evaluation for Managers), published by McGraw Hill, O gestor e a arte de Liderar (The manager and the art of Leadership), published by Editorial Presença and A Sorte Dá Muito Trabalho (Luck is Hard Work), published by Edições Almedina.

He is a University professor and regularly authors articles regarding management topics in several newspapers and magazines with a permanent collaboration with a weekly generalist Portuguese newspaper. Fernando recently served as Vice-President of MBAAC from 2009 – 2011 before being elected as President of The Lisbon MBA Alumni Club for the year 2011.