Jorge Moreira da Silva
 Jorge Moreira da Silva    (politician) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Jorge Manuel Lopes Moreira da Silva 24 April 1971 Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Portuguese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Porto, IESE Business School | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interests | • carbon finance • “climate change” | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Social Democratic Party (Portugal) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Portuguese politician interested in EU-wide "countermeasures" to "climate change"
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Jorge Manuel Lopes Moreira da Silva is a Portuguese engineer and politician of the Social Democratic Party who as of 2024 is the executive director of the United Nations Office for Project Services, UNOPS. He attended the 2012 Bilderberg meeting while working in EU "climate change" planning[1][2].
Political career
From 1995 to 1998, Moreira da Silva was the leader of Juventude Social Democrata, the youth organization of the PSD. He is also the founder (2011) and chairman of the Lisbon-based think-tank Plataforma para o Crescimento Sustentável - Platform for a Sustainable Growth.[3]
As a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2003, Moreira da Silva sat on the committee on the environment, public health and consumer policy. In this capacity, he was rapporteur on "climate change" and on the political agreement on the European directive on the "greenhouse gas" emission allowance trading system in 2003.[4]
Between 2003 and 2005 he was secretary of State for Science and Higher Education under Prime Minister José Manuel Durão Barroso and Secretary of State for the Environment and Territorial Planning under Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes. He went on to become minister of the Environment, Territorial Planning and Energy from 2013 to 2015 in the governments led by Pedro Passos Coelho.
From 2016 to 2022 he was director of the Development Co-operation Directorate at OECD.[5]
In 2023, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appoints Moreira da Silva as Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) with the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the UN[6].
Other positions
An international "expert" on "climate change", carbon finance, energy, environment and humanitarian aid, Moreira da Silva has been a visiting professor at several Portuguese and international universities and institutions, namely Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas and Sciences Po.
He was member of the European Commission's High-Level Group on Research, Innovation, and Science Policy (RISE) and was also a member of the advisory committee of CIRCLE (Climate Impact Research Coordination for a Larger Europe). He was senior advisor to the President of the Portuguese Republic, consultant to the European Commission and to the European Investment Bank and Vice-President of GLOBE-Europe.[2]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2012 | 31 May 2012 | 3 June 2012 | US Virginia Chantilly | The 58th Bilderberg, in Chantilly, Virginia. Unusually just 4 years after an earlier Bilderberg meeting there. |
References
- ↑ https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/249685/reporting/es
- ↑ a b https://web.archive.org/web/20100328010740/http://www.globe-europe.eu/
- ↑ http://www.crescimentosustentavel.org/
- ↑ https://www.politico.eu/article/emissions-scheme-gets-full-approval/
- ↑ https://www.oecd.org/dac/jorge-moreira-da-silva-cv.htm/
- ↑ https://press.un.org/en/2023/sga2192.doc.htm
