Maria João Rodrigues, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Maria João Rodrigues

Portuguese politician and academic

Date of Birth: 25-Sep-1955

Place of Birth: Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal

Profession: politician, economist

Nationality: Portugal

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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About Maria João Rodrigues

  • Maria João Rodrigues GOIH is a Portuguese academic and politician who served as Member of the European Parliament and Vice-President of the Group of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) from 2014 until 2019.
  • Since 2017 she is also President of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS). Her political career began as Minister of Employment of Portugal in the first government of Prime Minister António Guterres (1995–1997) and she was policy maker working in several posts in the European Institutions since 2000, notably in the leading teams of EU Presidencies.
  • She is an expert on EU political economy and has notably served as Special Advisor to a number of elected representatives at both Portuguese and EU level, in particular to former Prime Minister António Guterres, the current Secretary General of United Nations, to several European Commissioners and to the former President of the Party of European Socialists Poul Nyrup Rasmussen). She is known as the "mother of the Lisbon Strategy" since this is one of her main outcomes.
  • She had also a prominent roles in the development of: the EU2020 Strategy (the follow up of the Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs); the EU Declaration on Globalization adopted by the European Council (2007); strategic partnerships with USA, China, India, Russia, South Africa and Brazil (2007-2012); the new phase of the Erasmus Programme (2008); the priorities for the European regional development policy (2005–07); the responses to the Euro-zone crisis (2008–13); the EP Strategic Resolutions on the European Commission Annual Work Programme (2015-2017); and, more recently, the European Pillar of Social Rights (2017). In 2014, Rodrigues was elected Member of the European Parliament, integrating the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) - the second most important EP Group, with 190 members coming from the 28 Member States -, which elected her in 2014 as Vice-president.
  • As S&D Vice-President, she is in charge of general coordination and interface with the other EU institutions and member of the Committees of Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) and Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON). In academic terms, Rodrigues was professor of European economic policies in the European Studies Institute – Université libre de Bruxelles and in the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE).
  • She was also the chair of the European Commission Advisory Board for socio-economic sciences.
  • She is author of more than one hundred publications, notably the books.

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