Biographies/Biografias

Painter José Barata de Castilho

José Martins Barata was born in Castelo Branco in 1944.His full name is José Martins Barata de Castilho, since 2011, when he recovered his paternal grandfather's name, that his father had lost. He began to paint pictures to 18 years as self-taught and thought his vocation was the artist. At the end of high school, when he had to choose the course in university he thought to go to Fine Arts. But he was in the group of subjects that gave access to Economics with classifications that dispensed entrance examination and to change would have to make another preparation. He opted to go for Economics with the idea of one day to devote himself entirely to painting. He had many doubts that would have vocation to economist profession that barely knew and thought it was not compatible with arts. After all, he was very happy as an economist. Meanwhile he studied painting and also felt happy in this area. His biography here on right shows it. When asked how in his head he does reconcile activities as diverse, he responds that there is a common element in all of them, that is the need to be creative, rigorous and original. An economist, he says, learns at university paradigms, but this profession, to be efficient, requires to apply and study creatively, because social reality is dynamic and it is not the same as it was yesterday or what is written in some books.

"T-shirts", mixed technique on canvas

FORMAL EDUCATION a) pre-university preparation General Course of Trade and Preparatory Section (16 points) in School Industrial and Commercial Castelo Branco; Preparatory section (16 points), Commercial Institute of Lisbon. It received a scholarship from the state and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, from the second year of the Technical School. b) University degree 1964-1969: Degree in Economics, with 14 points in I.S.C.E.F. University Técnica de Lisboa (Baggins F. Gulbenkian until 1966/67); 1978-1979: Diplôme d'Etudes en Approfondies Monnaie et Finance, mention "Bien" (Higher ranking of your course), Faculté de Droit et des Sciences Economiques, University of Orleans; 1981: Doctorat d'Etat en Sciences Economiques, mention "Très Honorable" unanimously in the same Faculty and University; 1981: equivalent to a PhD degree in Economics from the Technical University of Lisbon Very Good with distinction and honors (equivalent to doctorate d'État with "Très Honorable") unanimously Jury. 1987: Approved unanimously the evidence aggregation, held at the Institute Economy Superior, on 27 and 28 April. FACULTY ACTIVITIES While he worked as a bank economist was Assistant ISEG, Technical University of Lisbon since 1973. After the doctorate has, by law, Assistant Professor, then the Associate Professor by tender, and in 1989 was the Full Professor of ISEG , ranked in 1st place in the contest. For 10 years he taught the banking economics module in the discipline of "intermédiaires et marchés financiers" (mandatory course of the 2nd year, about 200 students, conducted by Prof. Gallais-Hamonno), as a guest professor at the University of Orleans. RESEARCHER In addition to having directed masters and doctoral students, did individual research and directed teams of researchers, under FCT-Foundation for Science and Technology projects, which provided him to write articles in national and international journals of international circulation, to participate with papers in several international conferences and published several books existing in the libraries of universities and the Bank of Portugal. He produced original theories that have been used and tested in doctoral theses in France. ECONOMIST 1973-1975, Economist at Banco de Fomento Nacional, Research Office, where he wrote books, which the Bank published. 1976-1977, Member of the Board of Alentejo Bank Management. 1978 Head of Section of the Department of Financial Services Banco de Fomento Nacional. 1987-1990 Senior Adviser to the Minister of Finance of Mozambique, as World Bank Consultant Economist . INSTITUTIONAL FUNCTIONS As a university lecturer he was Chairman of the Board of the School of Economics from 1983 to 1985, President of General Meeting of the School in 1985 and President of the Pedagogic Council 2001-2004. PAINTER From self-taught painter went to learn lessons training, first individually and then in progressive courses that went to the top level through selection in the National Society of Fine Arts, Lisbon. You could say that he was so successful as he was as economist, as you can see by his CV http://josebarata.itgo.com/about.html. It is noteworthy exhibitions in important cultural metropolises abroad in prestigious galleries and art fairs, the awards he received and the references in the arts literature.