Carlos Moedas
| Carlos Moedas | |
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| European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation | |
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Assumed office 1 November 2014 |
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| President | Jean-Claude Juncker |
| Preceded by |
Máire Geoghegan-Quinn (Research, Innovation and Science) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Carlos Manuel Félix Moedas 10 August 1970 Beja, Portugal |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
| Alma mater |
University of Lisbon Harvard University |
Carlos Manuel Félix Moedas (Beja, Portugal, 10 August 1970) is a Portuguese banker and politician, who studied engineering at university.
On 10 September 2014, Juncker accepted the Portuguese Government's nomination of Moedas as European Commissioner, and appointed him to the portfolio of Research, Science and Innovation, taking office on 1 November.
Moedas was born to a communist journalist and a seamstress at 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.
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, 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 becoming Managing Partner until 2008, when he set up his own investment management company, Crimson Investment Management.
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