Jorge is an Associate Director at FRA in the Forensic Accounting Team based in London.

He has over nine years of experience in sectors such as oil and gas, automotive, aerospace and healthcare, where he has conducted fraud and corruption investigations across multiple jurisdictions, prepared expert analyses in the context of international arbitration and litigation, supported compliance monitorships, performed disgorgement calculations, and supported public finance transformation projects. Jorge’s recent experience includes:

• Supporting the independent consultant in an SEC settlement with a global mining group, providing advice on the group’s procedures and controls related to impairment and project risk
• Supported the expert report for the defendant of an ICC arbitration involving a large shipping group, which required the review of corporate financial records, financial accounts and regulatory settlements to identify red flags consistent with fraud and corruption
• Provided complex financial modelling support for a UK High Court case supporting a consumer goods company in an audit negligence claim against a Big Four company to recover approx. £500m
• Investigated whistleblower bribery and corruption allegations within the North African, Middle Eastern and Asian businesses of a medical device manufacturer
• Evaluated technical compliance, risk management and transformation of a company’s compliance program as part of a US DOJ monitorship related to Dieselgate
• Advised on the use of statistical sampling methods with regards to a Northern Ireland High Court case involving an aerospace manufacturing company claiming damages from breach of contract
• Investigated whistleblower allegations that revenue was overstated and costs were undervalued with respect to a multinational aerospace company’s long-term manufacturing projects
• Performed disgorgement calculations for a pharmaceutical company related to a settlement with Brazilian authorities

Before joining FRA, Jorge worked at EY for five years, where he led finance transformation projects, built macroeconomic analysis tools, and advised on the design, implementation and monitoring of two economic policy programs relevant to funding agreements with the IMF for a major African oil-producing country.

Jorge has a degree in Economics and post-graduate studies in Business Administration from ISCTE Business School in Lisbon, Portugal. He is fluent in Portuguese and English and is conversational in Spanish.