Ana Abrunhosa | |
|---|---|
 Abrunhosa in 2020 | |
| Minister for Territorial Cohesion | |
| Assumed office 26 October 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | António Costa |
| Preceded by | Luís Marques Guedes (as Minister of the Presidency and Regional Development) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 July 1970 Angola |
| Political party | No affiliation[1] |
| Spouse | António Infante da Câmara Trigueiros de Aragão |
| Alma mater | University of Coimbra |
Ana Maria Pereira Abrunhosa Trigueiros de Aragão (born 4 July 1970) is a Portuguese economist and politician serving as Minister for Territorial Cohesion since October 2019.
She has a doctorate in economics from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, and has taught several subjects there since 1995, such as microeconomics, regional economics, and European economics. She was also a researcher at the university's Centre for Social Studies.[2]
Politically unaffiliated, she had held public offices dealing with regional development and innovation management under both António Costa's centre-left government (PS) and the preceding Pedro Passos Coelho centre-right government (PSD).[1] Before becoming Minister, among other positions, she was President of the Centro Regional Coordination and Development Commission (2014–2019) — which, notably, coincided with the devastating June 2017 Portugal wildfires —, President of the management board of the Centro Regional Operational Programme (2014–2019), President of the Investment Committee of the Urban Instrument for Rehabilitation and Revitalisation (2016–2019), President of the General Council of the Debt & Guarantees Fund of the Financial Development Institution (2017–2018) and of the General Council of the Capital & Quasi-Capital Fund (2019), and President of the EuroACE Working Community and Euroregion (2018–2019).[2]
She has expressed a wish to run for Mayor of Coimbra as an independent in the future.[1]
Her second and current husband is António Trigueiros de Aragão, CEO of Fábricas Lusitana, a Portuguese food manufacturer, famous for the production of Branca de Neve flour. Her husband is a claimant to the title of 7th Count of Idanha-a-Nova.[3]
References
- 1 2 3 Martins, Christiana; Mateus, Joana Nunes; Matos, Vítor (15 January 2020). "Ana Abrunhosa, ministra da Coesão: "O Ministério foi feito um bocadinho à minha medida"" [Ana Abrunhosa, Minister for Cohesion: "The Ministry was somewhat tailored for me"]. Expresso (in Portuguese). Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- 1 2 "Ana Abrunhosa, Minister for Territorial Cohesion". portugal.gov.pt. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ↑ Lito, Raquel (17 November 2019). "Ana Abrunhosa: ministra sim, condessa um dia" [Ana Abrunhosa: minister, yes; countess, one day]. Sábado (in Portuguese). Retrieved 16 December 2020.