Prior to his directorship at Santander Bank - Lisbon, until 1998, in charge of "Project & Forfaiting Global Operations", John Fonseca-Robbins has served uninterruptedly from '65 to '96 as bank official for several banks in the City of London, namely: Anglo-Portuguese Bank, now Riggs Bank Europe Ltd; Standard Bank; Moscow Narodny Bank; Bank Leumi le-Israel; BPA, now Bank-MillenniumBCP; and, Banco Nacional Ultramarino, now Caixa Geral de Depositos, Lisbon.

A British Citizen, he was born in Belmonte - Portugal. 

Belmonte's site: http://www.cm-belmonte.pt

Local accommodation: http://www.conventodebelmonte.pt/index_en.html#remote-5

Coimbra's University: http://www.uc.pt/

He has participated and taken active intervention at "Fraud and Money Laundering Workshops";"The Economist", and "International Forfaiting Conferences". He is a former member of both "The Academy of Political Science of New York" and of  "Council Member of the Gerson Lehrman Group Financial Services Council"- New York,, a member of the "Academic Network South East Europe", Hamburg:, and was awarded a Ph.D en Gestion (Business Administration) by the Ecole Superieure Robert De Sorbon - France.  

Research Interest Areas and Present Activity:

Author and Columnist on varied subjects such as International Foreign Policy Issues, Strategy; International Environmental Innovations; and, Managerial Decision Making.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:  

His academic universality is best reflected in the titles of his major works:

1. Banking  "Forfaiting: Specialised Investment Tool"; = short web version  http://forfaiting.blogspot.com

"Dictionary of Banking and Finance: principal terms in English, German, French, and Italian"; "Project Finance: Definitions + Acronyms";

2. Diplomacy  "Diplomatic Affairs" - unabridged treatise on diplomatic relations, protocol and procedure, consular posts, intelligence, law and practice, international monetary institutions, the United Nations system - history, principal organs, etc. (214 Pages):

available through=  http://www.lulu.com/content/1723659

3. Managerial  Economics"Economics: a critical perspective", (85 Pages); "Business Methodologies"*

*Short web version= http://bizmethodologies.blogspot.com  

4. History "Portugal - the revolution of 1640 and beyond"

Short web version = http://portugalsrevolution.blogspot.com      

5. Marketing  "MBA Marketing: Global Visions";

6. Philosophy  "Philosophical Dissertations" - (160 Pages) - paper on the life and major works of some thirty-eight philosophers from Pythagoras to Sir A. J. Ayer;

7. Political Thought  - innumerous articles on Foreign Policy,  published by varied Journals;

8. Psychology  "Psychology-Revelations" - obtainable through (ISPA) - Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada - Lisbon;

9. Vocabularies  "Fonseca-Robbins'  Universal  Lexicon " -  major writer's reference volume, encompassing over 600 pages (in preparation).

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Spare time activities: Cycling, gardening, horse-riding, reading, swimming, walking, and writing.

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