Miguel joined Citigroup in 2010 as Head of CIB Portugal. In mid-2012, he was appointed Head of IB Africa (exc. SA & Egypt). In November 2017 Miguel was appointed Head of IB for the Middle East and Africa (ex SA); Miguel has an MBA in Finance from City University (Cass) Business School, and an Economics degree from Nova School of Business and Economics. He has been extremely active on M&A transactions such as Helios on HTN sale in Nigeria, Brookside (Kenya), Lafarge Africa (Nigeria), Actis/Diamond Bank (Nigeria), AMCON/ Enterprise Bank, Kansai (Japan and East Africa) and TGI/CHI (Nigeria). In Capital Markets, Miguel has been involved in some reference transactions in Africa such as: Bond deals for Liquid Telecom, IHS, Nigerian banks including Zenith, UBA, AFC and Access amongst many others; he has also been involved on equity deals out of Sub-Saharan Africa such as Atlas Mara, Seplat and Fairfax Africa and Unilever Nigeria; He contributes to CNBC Europe, CNBC Africa and BloombergTV; He’s a regular speaker in African events (WEFA; Milken Institute; NYFA, Africa Investment Summit).