Ricardo Nobre

Expert in the context of talent mobility and world of work matters. Ricardo has a master degree from an European top-tier university (Mechanical Engineering, IST) and is the former Strategic Clients Director and Board Member of an American company in Germany (650 mn. € in revenue and 20.000 employees). Ricardo has +20 years management experience in engineering, recruitment and ICT training. He started his career at ABB Alstom Power, where worked as Engineer Site Manager in Portugal (Alqueva Mutlipurpose Dam, largest artificial lake in Western Europe) and Thailand (Lam ta Khong pumped storage Project). He joined the recruitment industry in 2001, having worked 12 years as country manager and international business specialties developer across 44 countries for a world top-tier staffing company. In 2013 Ricardo founded Cross Border Talents, a Horizon 2020 SME Instrument Champion. His ambition is to contribute to solve the global skills shortage challenge through consistently facilitating employment transitions in increasingly volatile and complex labor markets. Ricardo is a member of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition (European Commission). In 2016 his project proposal CBT Academy (a disruptive business model to recruit, train and employ 500,000 ICT Professionals by 2020) was awarded with 3 Seals of Excellence, a certificate delivered by the European Commission as the institution managing Horizon 2020, the EU framework programme for Research and Innovation 2014-2020. Ricardo is father of Ricardo João, Frederico and Rita!