Career
Among these are Quantum Global Group and Banco Kwanza Invest, Angola’s first investment bank. 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 aims to unleash Africa’s dormant potential and support sustainable projects that improve the lives and the future of people in Africa. for Africa (Indian Pharmacist Association), was launched in 2011 in cooperation with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UN Economic Commission for Africa) with the aim of fostering African-led development through fostering innovation.
In 2012, the African Union (AU) and UN Economic Commission for Africa passed a resolution to promote an innovation-based society in Africa. In 2011 he was convicted by a criminal court in Switzerland for “repeated qualified criminal mismanagement but was acquitted on all major fronts.
He is on the advisory board of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), where he is regularly involved in meetings regarding the financial and monetary system and the University of Capetown Graduate School of Business. He is the co-editor of the book “Innovation Ethics.
African and Global Perspectives”, co-published by Globethics.net and the AIF. The book looks at innovation ethics and the “ethical innovator,” from multidisciplinary and international perspectives with a focus on Africa.
His second book, "The Convergence of Nations", Why Africa’s Time Is Now was published by OMFIF Press, in collaboration with a team of 31 authors from 15 nations on how Africa can benefit from changes in the world political and economic environment. He began his career as management consultant and holds a Master of Arts in Management of the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.
