{"id":13197,"date":"2022-12-30T11:17:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T11:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diasporaportuguesa.org\/perfil\/antonio-simoes\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:05:27","slug":"antonio-simoes","status":"publish","type":"perfis","link":"https:\/\/www.diasporaportuguesa.org\/en\/profile\/antonio-simoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ant\u00f3nio Sim\u00f5es"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ant\u00f3nio Sim\u00f5es is the Group Chief Executive Officer of Legal & General Group, one of the United Kingdom\u2019s most established institutions in life insurance, savings, pensions, and asset management. He was appointed to the role in June 2023 and assumed office on 1 January 2024. The Group manages approximately \u00a31.2 trillion in assets and remains a leading reference in the financial and insurance sectors in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously, he served as CEO of Santander Spain and Regional Head of Europe at Banco Santander, where he was responsible for the bank\u2019s operations in Spain and for coordinating Santander\u2019s local leadership teams across Portugal, Poland, and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before joining Santander, he spent 13 years at HSBC, where he held several senior leadership positions, including Chief Executive of Global Private Banking and Chief Executive of HSBC in the UK and Continental Europe. He also served as a Board Director of the Group\u2019s French and Turkish subsidiaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2009, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He began his professional career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs in London and later spent 10 years at McKinsey & Company, where he became a Partner in the Financial Services practice across multiple geographies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September 2007, he joined HSBC as Head of Strategy, reporting directly to the Group Chairman. In January 2012, he was appointed Head of Retail Banking and Wealth Management for Europe, overseeing all aspects of HSBC\u2019s retail banking, wealth management, asset management, and insurance business across the UK and Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He holds a degree in Economics from Nova School of Business and Economics and an MBA with honours from Columbia Business School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was one of the founding members of the Portuguese Diaspora Council and has been a member since 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12673,"template":"","meta":[],"grupo":[281],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAnt\u00f3nio Sim\u00f5es - Conselho da Di\u00e1spora Portuguesa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Get to know Ant\u00f3nio Sim\u00f5es's profile.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diasporaportuguesa.org\/en\/profile\/antonio-simoes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ant\u00f3nio Sim\u00f5es - Conselho da Di\u00e1spora Portuguesa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Get to know Ant\u00f3nio Sim\u00f5es's profile.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.diasporaportuguesa.org\/en\/profile\/antonio-simoes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Conselho da Di\u00e1spora Portuguesa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-04-16T09:05:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.diasporaportuguesa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/nj3nmlmN-1.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"690\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"690\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CdDiaspora\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.diasporaportuguesa.org\/en\/profile\/antonio-simoes\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.diasporaportuguesa.org\/en\/profile\/antonio-simoes\/\",\"name\":\"Ant\u00f3nio Sim\u00f5es - 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