Constança Urbano de Sousa
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Her Excellency Constança Urbano de Sousa |
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| Minister of Internal Administration | |
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Assumed office 26 November 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | António Costa |
| Preceded by | João Calvão da Silva |
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April 1, 1967 Coimbra, Portugal |
| Alma mater | University of Coimbra |
| Website | Minister of Internal Administration |
Maria Constança Dias Urbano de Sousa (born 1 April 1967) is a Portuguese jurist and the country's current Minister of Internal Administration.
Constança Urbano de Sousa graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, in 1991, and received a postgraduate degree in European Law and a doctorate in Law from Saarland University, in Germany, in 1994 and 1997, respectively.
She taught Law in the Autonomous University of Lisbon and the Superior Institute of Police Sciences and Internal Security, as an associate Professor, since 1998. Starting 2000, she also taught European Law for Asylum and Immigration at the Free University of Brussels.
She is currently the Portuguese Minister of Internal Administration, in António Costa's cabinet.
From 2006 to 2012, she was coordinated the Justice and Internal Affairs group of Portugal's Permanent Representation to the European Union. For six years, she headed the national delegation to the Strategic Committee on Immigration, Frontiers and Asylum of the European Union, which she chaired in 2007, and was part of other commitees of Council of the European Union.
She was born in the civil parish (freguesia) of Sé Nova, in Coimbra, the daughter of former Ombudsman Alfredo José de Sousa and Maria Clara Pires Dias Urbano de Sousa.
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