Henrique Goncalves
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Henrique is a French Compliance Officer working in Paris. He studied Business Management and Economics in France, Portugal and the United Kingdom in the 90ies. During his studies he specialized in develoment economics and this interest led him have his initial professional experiences still as a student at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, USA, and the French Economy Ministry Office in Maputo, Mozambique, and then as a junior professional officer of European Commission Delegation in Brasilia, Brazil.
Keen to reconciliate the real economy and its stakehoders with the environmental and social challenges he observed on the ground during his successive international assignments, he specialized in anthropocentric and utilitarist approaches to sustainable development during his MSc in Human Geography Research at the London School of Economics. Henrique held afterwards several positions in transformation, internal audit, operational risk and compliance within international banks such as Millenium, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, and HSBC. He is currently Head of Compliance of HSBC Private Banking in France.