Carlos Moedas

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This name uses Portuguese naming customs. The first or maternal family name is Félix and the second or paternal family name is Moedas.
Carlos Moedas
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Moedas in 2023
Mayor of Lisbon
Assumed office
18 October 2021 (2021-10-18)
Deputy Filipe Anacoreta Correia
Preceded by Fernando Medina
European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation
In office
1 November 2014 – 30 November 2019
President Jean-Claude Juncker
Preceded by Máire Geoghegan-Quinn
Succeeded by Mariya Gabriel
Secretary of State Assistant to the Prime Minister
In office
21 June 2011 – 10 September 2014
Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho
Preceded by João Almeida Ribeiro
Succeeded by Mariana Vieira da Silva
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
In office
20 June 2011 – 21 June 2011
Constituency Beja
Personal details
Born Carlos Manuel Félix Moedas
(1970-08-10) 10 August 1970 (age 54)
Beja, Portugal
Political party Social Democratic
Spouse(s) Céline Dora Judith Abecassis Moedas (m. 2000)
Children 3
Education University of Lisbon
Harvard University

Carlos Manuel Félix Moedas (born 10 August 1970) is a Portuguese civil engineer, economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), who is the current Mayor of Lisbon.

From 2014 until 2019, Moedas served as European Commissioner covering the portfolio of Research, Science and Innovation under the leadership of President Jean-Claude Juncker.[1] Between 2011 and 2014 he served as Secretary of State in the XIX Constitutional Government of Portugal.

In March 2021, Moedas announced his candidacy as Mayor of Lisbon in the 2021 local elections, and was elected on 26 September of the same year.[2]

Early life and education

Moedas was born to a communist journalist and a seamstress[3] in Beja, Alentejo, southern Portugal, in 1970. He studied at Lisbon University, graduating in 1993 with a degree in Civil Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico. He spent his final year studying at the ENPC (Paris) via the Erasmus Programme. He was one of the first Portuguese students to undertake an Erasmus exchange.[4]

Professional career

After leaving university, Moedas worked as a project manager for the Suez Group in France between 1993 and 1998. He then took postgraduate studies at Harvard Business School, graduating in 2000 with the degree of MBA,[5] after which he came back to Europe to work in mergers and acquisitions for Goldman Sachs. He then worked at Eurohypo Investment Bank in its Real Estate Investment Banking Division, before returning, in August 2004, to Portugal, when Moedas joined the real estate consulting company Aguirre Newman Portugal[6] (now Savills Portugal[7]) becoming Managing Partner until 2008, when he set up his own investment management company, Crimson Investment Management.[8]

Political career

Following the Eurozone crisis, Moedas was appointed coordinator of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Economic Research Unit. He and Eduardo Catroga led PSD negotiations in the run-up to Portugal's 2011 State Budget, following which he was selected by PSD to contest the Beja constituency in the legislative elections held on the 5th of June 2011.

Moedas was elected to Parliament, becoming the first PSD Member of Parliament for that district since 1995.[9] The day after entering Parliament, on 21 June 2011, the Prime Minister appointed him to his Cabinet in the XIX Constitutional Government as Secretary of State.[10]

Moedas oversaw EASME (Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises), the agency created to monitor and control the implementation of the structural reforms agreed in the context of the assistance programme by a troika composed of the European Commission, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund.[11]

In 2014, Pedro Passos Coelho, Prime Minister of Portugal, nominated him as European Commissioner,[12] and Moedas' name was approved by EC President-elect Jean-Claude Juncker on 1 September. On 1 November 2014, Moedas became European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation.[citation needed]

In March 2021, Moedas announced his candidacy as Mayor of Lisbon in the 2021 local elections, and was elected on 26 September of the same year. He took office on 18 October 2021.[13]

Other activities

Honours and awards

  • Member of the Portuguese Academy of Engineering (2014)
  • Commander of the Spanish Order of Civil Merit by the King Felipe VI of Spain (2015)
  • Honorary Doctorate in Laws by the University of Cork (2016) [22]
  • Honorary Doctorate by ESCP Europe - École supérieure de commerce de Paris (2018)
  • Honorary Fellow of the AAS - African Academy of Sciences (2018)
  • Gold Medal from the Portuguese Order of Engineering (2019)
  • University of Coimbra Prize (2020)
  • Honorary Doctorate by the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2022)
  • Honorary Doctorate by the West University of Timisoara (2022)
  • Knight of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of Pope St Sylvester (2023)
  • Grand Cross of the Order of Infante D. Henrique (2023)

Publications

See also

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Sofia Rodrigues (4 March 2021), Carlos Moedas: "Foi uma decisão de vida, reflectida e pensada" Público.
  3. ↑ Nicholas Hirst (February 3, 2015), Carlos Moedas: Convincing investor Politico Europe.
  4. ↑ Nicholas Hirst (February 3, 2015), Carlos Moedas: Convincing investor Politico Europe.
  5. ↑ Biography in the Centre for European Studies
  6. ↑ www.aguirrenewman.es,
  7. ↑ www.savills.pt,
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.,Vida Imobiliária, April 2009 (in Portuguese)
  9. ↑ "Carlos Moedas" Archived September 10, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Diário de Notícias, 27 junho 2011 (in Portuguese)
  10. ↑ Profile of Carlos Moedas on the Portuguese Government Website
  11. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. ↑ Carlos Moedas toma posse como presidente da Câmara de Lisboa a 18 de outubro, SIC Notícias 05.10.2021
  14. ↑ Members European Council on Foreign Relations.
  15. ↑ Commission Decision on Former Commissioner Carlos Moedas’ post term of office professional activity for the Aga Khan University European Commission, July 5, 2021.
  16. ↑ High-Level Group of Personalities on Africa-Europe Relations Archived 11 April 2022 at the Wayback Machine Africa Europe Foundation (AEF).
  17. ↑ Friends of Europe appoints 29 new members to its Board of Trustees Friends of Europe, press release of June 25, 2020.
  18. ↑ Decision of the European Commission on Commissioner Carlos Moedas' post term of office professional activity as member of the Advisory Board of the UNESCO "Futures of Education" initiative European Commission, 13 November 2019.
  19. ↑ Cristina Gonzalez (November 27, 2019), Out of Commission: Team Juncker moves on Politico Europe.
  20. ↑ Cristina Gonzalez (November 27, 2019), Out of Commission: Team Juncker moves on Politico Europe.
  21. ↑ Advisory Board[permanent dead link] Re-Imagine Europa.
  22. ↑ University College Cork, "EU Commissioner honoured by UCC" Archived 2016-12-15 at the Wayback Machine, Honorary Doctorate in Laws by the University of Cork (2016), 4 November 2016

External links

Political offices
Preceded by Mayor of Lisbon
2021–present		 Incumbent
Preceded by Portuguese European Commissioner
2014–2019		 Succeeded by
Elisa Ferreira
Preceded by as European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation
2014–2019		 Succeeded by
Mariya Gabriel
as European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth


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