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Diego Sarmento Pereira joined Jefferies in August 2025 as a Senior Associate in the Equity Research team, covering the Latin America financial sector. He started at Jefferies after completing his MBA at London Business School. Previously, he worked as a buy-side equity analyst at Itaú Asset, Brazil’s largest private asset manager Diego Pereira key sectors and

Iñigo Vega joined Jefferies in 2023, after spending the previous 10 years at Nau Securities, where he built full coverage of banks and Fintech in Latin America. Íñigo has over two decades of experience in covering both Latin American and Iberian banks for firms such as JP Morgan and Cheuvreux. Jefferies Latin American equity research

Antonio Pedro Cardoso joined Jefferies at the beginning of 2025, having spent over two years at Itavera, an asset management company in Rio de Janeiro focused on Brazilian equities, with coverage of the Healthcare, Insurance, Retail, Education and Leisure sectors. He gained his CFA in 2024 and completed an MSc in Finance at HEC Paris

Pedro Baptista joined Jefferies in 2023, after spending the previous 12 years at Nau Securities covering Latin America. He was Head of EMEA and European Small and Midcap Equities Research as well as Deputy Head of European Equities Research at UBS prior to that. Pedro is responsible for consumer and special situations research (inc. holding

Alex Wright joined Jefferies in 2023, after spending the previous 8 years at Nau Securities. He has over 25 years of experience covering TMT sectors in Global Emerging Markets, and in recent years has expanded coverage to Consumer sectors including Retailing, E-commerce and Beverages. In the last year he has published extensive sector reports on

Alejandro Demichelis joined Jefferies in 2023 as a Managing Director in the Latin American equity research team from Nau Securities to cover energy, infrastructure, and industrials. Alejandro has 25 years of experience in the energy sector, including positions as upstream portfolio manager at Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund IPIC (now Mubadala) and senior consultant with