Guilherme d'Oliveira Martins

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(lawyer, politician)
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Born23 September 1952
NationalityPortuguese
Alma materUniversity of Lisbon
Member ofCalouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Portuguese Bilderberg lawyer/politician

Guilherme Valdemar Pereira de Oliveira Martins is a Portuguese jurist and politician. He attended the 2001 Bilderberg meeting as Minister of Finance and senior civil servant.

Background

He is the brother of Professor of Law Afonso d'Oliveira Martins, and brother-in-law of former President of the entity of accounts and political financing, Margarida Salema d'Oliveira Martins; and António Capucho, former Minister of quality of life and also former mayor of Cascais. He is the father of Guilherme Waldemar d'Oliveira Martins, Secretary of State for infrastructure 2015-2019.[1]

Education

He studied at Liceu Pedro Nunes in Lisbon. He studied law and economics at the University of Lisbon.

Career

A lawyer in the civil service, he was part of the Ministries of Finance and Industry and Trade, between 1975 and 1986, and was director of Legal Services of the Directorate-General of the Treasury.

He was also an assistant at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, from 1977 to 1985, having taught at other educational institutions, public and private, as a guest professor.

He was president of the Court of Auditors between 2005 and 2015 and, ex officio, of the Council for the Prevention of corruption, from 2008 to 2015.

On October 9, 2015, he became an executive member of the Board of Directors of the Gulbenkian Foundation, succeeding Eduardo Marçal Grilo, a position he assumed on November 16, 2015 for a term of 5 years (until 2020), renewed until 2025.[2][3]

Political career

He started his political career in the Social Democratic Party (PSD). He was a founding activist of the Social Democratic Youth, in 1974, and Deputy Secretary General of the then Popular Democratic Party (PPD), led by Francisco Sá Carneiro.[4]

He left the PSD in April 1979, in a split that gave rise to The Independent Social Democratic Action, accompanying Joaquim Magalhães Mota, António de Sousa Franco, Jorge Miranda, José Manuel Sérvulo Correia, among others. He thus began his approach to the Socialist Party — in 1980, in the legislatures won with an absolute majority by the Democratic Alliance, he took a seat in parliament. In between, in 1979, he was chief of staff of António Sousa Franco, then Minister of Finance of the short-lived government of Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo. In 1983 he was re-elected again as an independent deputy for the PS.

In 1985, he became involved in the first presidential candidacy of Mário Soares, as a spokesman. With the victory of Soares, he was appointed political advisor to the president, a position he held until 1991.

With the arrival of António Guterres to the government in 1995, he was called to hold the positions of Secretary of State for Educational Administration, from 1995 to 1999; Minister of Education, until 2000; Minister of the Presidency, from 2000 to 2002; and Minister of Finance, between 2001 and 2002.

In all, he was a member of parliament for seven legislatures. Among the other positions he held, are those of representative of the Assembly of the Portuguese Republic in the Convention for the Future of Europe, Secretary General of the Portuguese Commission of the European Culture Foundation, President of SEDES, member of the Board of Directors of the Mário Soares Foundation and Vice-President of the National Commission of UNESCO (1988-1994).


 

Event Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/200124 May 200127 May 2001Sweden
Stenungsund
The 49th Bilderberg, in Sweden. Reported on the WWW.
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