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Revision as of 21:41, 21 April 2014 by Waacstats (talk | contribs) (→External links: add persondata short description using AWB)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais (born 1967 in Fribourg) is an internationally active Swiss entrepreneur and investor and has founded and led numerous businesses over the course of his career. Among these are Quantum Global Group, Banco Kwanza Invest, Angola’s first investment bank, the African Innovation Foundation and the Innovation Prize for Africa. Quantum Global Group today is an international group of companies that is active and expanding in the fields of corporate finance advisory, asset and private wealth management, real estate and investment consulting. Mr. Bastos is the Group’s Chairman of the Advisory Board.
In 2009 he founded the African Innovation Foundation (AIF) which is focused on driving African-led development through fostering innovation. The Foundation's Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA), in cooperation with The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), aims to mobilise African entrepreneurs.
In 2013 he launched and funded the African Online Library on Law and Governance (the African Law Library), which is an innovative online portal available free of charge to all those interested in African law and governance. The African Law Library aims to improve access to modern and customary law texts, and to other legal documents and secondary sources in the continent of Africa, in order to strengthen justice, accountability, predictability and democracy.
He began his career as management consultant and holds a Master of Arts in Management of the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.
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- http://www.www.africaninnovation.org
- http://www.innovationprizeforafrica.org
- http://www.jeanclaudebastosdemorais.com
External links
- http://www.euromoney.com/Article/3112458/Angola-fund-launch-leaves-questions-unanswered.html
- http://www.jeanclaudebastosdemorais.com - personal website
- http://www.quantumglobal.ch—website of Quantum Global Group
- http://www.africabusinesscommunities.com/index.php/rss-abc-interviews/201082-jean-claude-bastos-de-morais-quantum-global-group-how-to-do-business-in-africa