Her Excellency
Mariana Vieira da Silva
Minister of the Presidency
Assumed office
26 October 2019
Prime MinisterAntónio Costa
Preceded byHerself (as Minister of the Presidency and Administrative Modernisation)
Minister of the Presidency and Administrative Modernisation
In office
18 February 2019 – 26 October 2019
Prime MinisterAntónio Costa
Preceded byMaria Manuel Leitão Marques
Succeeded byHerself (as Minister of the Presidency)
Alexandra Leitão (as Minister for Administrative Modernisation)
Secretary of State Adjunct to the Prime Minister
In office
26 November 2015 – 18 February 2019
Prime MinisterAntónio Costa
Preceded byCarlos Moedas
Succeeded byDuarte Cordeiro
Personal details
Born (1978-05-08) 8 May 1978
Lisboa, Portugal
Political partySocialist Party
RelativesJosé António Vieira da Silva (father)
Alma materISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon

Mariana Guimarães Vieira da Silva (born 8 May 1978[1]) is a Portuguese sociologist and politician who currently serves as Minister of the Presidency in António Costa's XXIII Constitutional Government, effectively in second in the government.[2][3]

Early life and education

Mariana Vieira da Silva is the daughter of politician José António Vieira da Silva,[4] himself a government minister in the Socialist cabinets of José Sócrates and António Costa, and economist Margarida Guimarães. She has a brother, Miguel Vieira da Silva, who is a musician.[1] In her youth, between the ages of 9 and 19, Vieira da Silva was a competitive swimmer for Sporting CP, specialising in the demanding 200 metres butterfly stroke.[1]

Vieira da Silva earned a licentiate degree in Sociology from ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, in 2002,[1] and has not yet concluded her doctorate in Public Policy (she has finished the coursework but has not yet presented her dissertation on the subject of health and education policies in Portugal).[2]

Political career

Around the time of the campaign for the 2002 legislative election, Vieira da Silva joined the Socialist Party's political movement Movimento Imaginar Portugal; she became a member of the party shortly after that year's electoral loss.[1] From 2005 to 2009, she worked in an advisory capacity in the office of the Minister of Education Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues. From 2009 to 2011, Vieira da Silva served in an adjunct capacity in the office of the Secretary of State Adjunct to the Prime Minister, José Almeida Ribeiro.[2]

In November 2015, Vieira da Silva became part of the XXI Constitutional Government as Secretary of State Adjunct to the Prime Minister, until February 2019, when she replaced Maria Manuel Leitão Marques (elected Member of the European Parliament) as Minister of the Presidency and of Administrative Modernisation.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Tavares, Rita (13 April 2018). "Mariana Vieira da Silva: a mulher que atende o primeiro-ministro até dentro de água" [Mariana Vieira da Silva: the woman who answers the Prime Minister's call even while swimming]. Observador (in Portuguese). Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Mariana Vieira da Silva, Ministra de Estado e da Presidência". portugal.gov.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  3. ↑ "Mariana Vieira da Silva, ministra da Presidência e "número dois" do Governo". SIC Noticias. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  4. ↑ Ivo Oliveira (28 March 2019), Family affair rocks Portuguese government Politico Europe.
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