Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais

Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais
Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais

Swiss-Angolan Entrepreneur and Innovation Influencer
Personal details
Born	1967 Fribourg, Switzerland
Nationality	Swiss & Angolan
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Website	www.jeanclaudebastosdemorais.com

Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais (born 1967 in Fribourg) is an internationally active Swiss-Angolan entrepreneur and innovation influencer and has founded and led numerous businesses over the course of his career. Among these are Quantum Global Group and Banco Kwanza Invest, Angola’s first investment bank. Quantum Global Group today is an international group of companies that is active and expanding in the fields of corporate finance advisory, asset and private wealth management, real estate and investment consulting. Mr. Bastos is the Group’s Chairman of the Advisory Board.

In 2009 he founded the African Innovation Foundation (AIF)^[1] which aims to unleash Africa’s dormant potential and support sustainable projects that improve the lives and the future of people in Africa. The Foundation's Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA), was launched in 2011 in cooperation with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) with the aim of fostering African-led development through fostering innovation.^[2] In 2012, the African Union (AU) and UNECA passed a resolution to promote an innovation-based society in Africa.

While it has been reported that he was convicted in 2011 by a criminal court in Switzerland for “repeated qualified criminal mismanagement , he was acquitted on all major fronts and other guilty parties were sentenced to imprisonment. He has publicly defended the actions in question, believing that it was right to pay the salaries of employees who would have otherwise suffered gravely as a result.

In 2012 he launched and funded the African Online Library on Law and Governance (the African Law Library), which is an innovative online portal available free of charge to all those interested in African law and governance. The African Law Library aims to improve access to modern and customary law texts, and to other legal documents and secondary sources in the continent of Africa, in order to strengthen justice, accountability, predictability and democracy.

He is on the advisory board of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), where he is regularly involved in meetings regarding the financial and monetary system and the University of Capetown Graduate School of Business. He is also a member of the international Board of Foundation for Globethics.net, a leading global network that advocates ethical corporate and social practices.

He is the co-editor of the book “Innovation Ethics. African and Global Perspectives”, co-published by Globethics.net and the AIF. The book looks at innovation ethics and the “ethical innovator,” from multidisciplinary and international perspectives with a focus on Africa.

His second book, "The Convergence of Nations", Why Africa’s Time Is Now was published by OMFIF Press, in collaboration with a team of 31 authors from 15 nations on how Africa can benefit from changes in the world political and economic environment.

He began his career as management consultant and holds a Master of Arts in Management of the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.^[3]

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