Ines Pires is the Chief Executive Officer of IN. Investments. She has advised clients from across the whole range of industries on International Business, reputation and multinational government affairs across languages and business corporate cultures (from china to India to Europe and Africa), but also contributes to current strategic accounts across the company. Ines began her career in economics and politics, working as an economic journalist at the newspaper “Independent” and as head of cabinet of the Vice President of the European Parliament in Brussels; heading up a Brussels-based protocol & diplomacy Institute and think-tank as founder of the ISPD Group and the Innovation in Diplomacy network in 2010 acquired 10 years later by a family private office in the Gulf region. As economist, she serves as consultant and board member of multinationals and adds value as partner in a couple of companies globally. She is a frequent public speaker and lecturer, and speaks French, Portuguese, Spanish, English, German, Italian, and has a good passive know how of few of more languages.