Gonçalo Leónidas Rocha was born in Lisbon in 1966. He has a Management degree from Lisbon’s Catholic University and holds a PhD in Finance from Nova School of Business and Economics.

He worked as director of the Lisbon Stock Market, general director of the bank Caixa Económica Comercial e Industrial, director of Banco Cisf and Cisf Dealer, director of RTP, member of the Senior board of Millennium bcp and as a partner at the consultant Roland Berger.

He has also been director of CTT (the post office), Banco Postal (bank), Previsão (pension funds), Multicert (digital certification), Porto TV (television) and President of the Board of Directors of Payshop (mobile phone and invoice payment services) and Telepost (printing & finishing of invoices). Since March 2014, Gonçalo Leónidas Rocha serves as Finance and Investment Director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He was a Board Member of Partex Oil & Gas on behalf of the shareholder Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

He is Assistant Professor at the NOVA School of Business and Economics and at the Lisbon MBA.