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Teresa Patrício Gouveia

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(politician)
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BornMaria Teresa Pinto Basto Patrício de Gouveia
July 18, 1946
Lisbon, Portugal
NationalityPortuguese
Alma materUniversity of Lisbon
ChildrenAfonso Gouveia O'Neill
Siblings • António Patrício Gouveia
• Alexandre Patrício Gouveia
SpouseAlexandre O'Neill
PartySocial Democratic Party (Portugal)

Maria Teresa Pinto Basto Gouveia known as Teresa Patrício de Gouveia is a Portuguese politician. She attended the 2000 Bilderberg meeting, then became Foreign Minister in 2003. Later she was administrator at the Gulbenkian Foundation.

Background

She is daughter of Dr. Afonso Patrício de Gouveia and his wife Maria Madalena d'orey Ferreira Pinto Basto. She is the older sister of António Patrício Gouveia and Alexandre Patrício Gouveia. António, died in the 1980 Camarate air crash a CIA covert assassination of the then Prime Minister Francisco Sá Carneiro and the Minister of Defense, Adelino Amaro da Costa.

She is second cousin of Francisco Pinto Balsemão and third cousin of António Capucho.[1]

Education

She has a degree in history from the University of Lisbon,

Career

She was a librarian at the Italian Institute of Culture, until she joined the State Secretariat for culture as a senior technician. Here she held managerial positions in the Coordinating Office for External Cultural Activities between 1977 and 1980, and headed the Office for cultural and International Relations of the Ministry of Culture until 1982.

Between 1982 and 1985 she was director general of the Ministry of Culture. In the last of these years she was called to the first government of Aníbal Cavaco Silva, exercising the position of Secretary of State for Culture.

In 1987 she was elected deputy to the parliament, for the Social Democratic Party and held the position of Secretary of State for Culture until 1990. returning to government in 1991, this time as Secretary of State for the environment. The appointment caused her to relinquish the role of administrator of Bertrand booksellers, to which she had been appointed in 1990. Between 1993 and 1995 she held the position of Minister of Environment and Natural Resources.

She was re-elected deputy in 1995, 1999 and 2002, at the same time that she held functions at the Serralves Foundation (which she helped found as Secretary of State for culture), as administrator, from 1997 to 2000, and president, from 2001 to 2003. After the resignation of António Martins Da Cruz, she joined the Government of José Barroso and Paulo Portas, as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Portuguese Communities, a position she held until the appointment of Santana Lopes as Prime Minister in 2004. From 2004 to 2012 she was administrator of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Marriage

Teresa Gouveia married on August 4, 1971 with the poet Alexandre O'Neill, with whom she has a son, Afonso [de] Gouveia O'Neill, born on May 28, 1976, married to Eva Gordon Maple Lafite, born on February 20, 1981, married, with two children.[2]


 

Event Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/20001 June 20004 June 2000Belgium
Brussels
Genval
The 48th Bilderberg, 94 guests
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References

  1. Fernando de Castro Pereira Mouzinho de Albuquerque e Cunha (1971). Mouzinho de Albuquerque - História e Genealogia 1.ª ed. Cascais: Edição do Autor. pp. Volume I. 221
  2. Carlos Lourenço do Carmo da Câmara Bobone (1997). História da Família Ferreira Pinto Basto. I ou II 1.ª ed. Lisboa: Livraria Bizantina. 403