João Magro

As a banking regulation expert, I aim at benchmarking and challenging industry practices. 

As a Policy Specialist in the Central Bank of Ireland, my work is focused on EU and national banking policies, including the ongoing implementation of Basel III, and other supervisory policy topics.

I am ready to deliver statistical, regulatory, or business analyses on new given supervisory topics, grounded on my broad knowledge of regulatory requirements and risks.

I graduated with a Ph.D. in Finance (Oct 2020).

I previously worked as a supervisory analyst at the European Central Bank, being a member of a Joint Supervisory Team for a French credit institution, and later for an Austrian one.  As as a supervisor, my main subjects of expertise were credit risk and credit risk internal models. Over the years, I also have had significant exposure to the supervision of liquidity risk, sanctions compliance, and climate risks.

I have also worked in the ECB as a trainee (Apr 2020 - Mar 2021) in the Banking Supervision Data Division. 

As a Ph.D. graduate, I bring insights into a wide range of statistical tools and research topics.

I am keen on departing for new statistical, conceptual, or business dives into public policy topics: I have done it professionally and for even longer in think-tank and non-profit settings.

I received my Ph.D. from Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE) in October 2020. I spent two years as a Visiting Researcher at Imperial College London and nine months as a Visiting Researcher at the London School of Economics.

You can find my Job Market Paper here.

Academic References:

Cláudia Custódio |  Miguel Ferreira | Irem Demirci

Contact me:

E-mail: joao.magro@novasbe.pt 

Phone: (+351) 919 970 224

Research Interests:

Banking, Empirical Corporate Finance, Private Equity

In the Banking Supervision Data Division, I have carried out a thematic review on securitizations, deep-diving into the new regulatory framework. I implemented new validation rules checking the accuracy of three new COREP reporting templates.

I provided expert support in several supervisory reporting topics, contributing to ECB’s stances and standards. I have also been engaged in challenging outliers and inconsistent data, in a dialogue with supervised institutions.