Fernando Ulrich

Fernando Maria Costa Duarte Ulrich (born 26 April 1952 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese economist and banking administrator.

The Ulrich family, whose members used to traditionally deal with banking and architecture, was originally German from Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire, but established themselves in Portugal during the mid-18th century.

Born in 1952 in Santa Isabel, Lisbon, Fernando Ulrich was the first child and only son of João Jorge de Melo Ulrich and Maria Isabel Buzaglo Costa Duarte (of maternal Sephardi Jewish descent), and grandson of both an administrator of the Banco de Portugal and a broker and insurance professional.

[1] Fernando Ulrich was Deputy Manager of Sociedade Portuguesa de Investimentos (SPI) from 1983 to 1985 and Chief of the Cabinet of the Portuguese Minister of Finance from 1981 to 1983, when Francisco Pinto Balsemão was the head of the Government of Portugal.

He was among the Portuguese Delegation to the OECD, from 1975 to 1979 and was Head of the Financial Markets Unit of the weekly newspaper Expresso, founded by Francisco Pinto Balsemão, from 1973 to 1974.