Antonio Viana-Baptista. Non-Executive Director (49)

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Antonio Viana-Baptista serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since August 2002.

He is an economist who graduated from the Catholic University of Lisbon in 1980. He has a post graduate in European Economy (1981), and an MBA, obtained with a distinction mention, from INSEAD (Fontainebleu). He is member of the board of directors, the Delegate Committee and the Executive Committee of Telefónica S.A.

He is also Chairman of Telefónica Móviles España, S. A. and member of the board of directors of Telefónica Internacional, S.A., Portugal Telecom SGPS, Brasilcel N. V. , CTC Chile, Telefónica de Argentina, S. A. and Telecomunicações de São Paulo S. A. Until July 2002, he served as President of Telefónica Internacional and Executive President of Telefónica Latinoamérica. Before that he also served from 1991 until 1996, as Executive Director of BPI (Banco Portugues de Investimento).

From 1985 until 1991 Mr. Viana-Baptista was Principal Partner of McKinsey & Co. in Madrid and Lisbon.

He was appointed to the O2 Board on 23 January 2006 after the Telefónica offer for O2 went unconditional.