Elisa Ferreira
| Elisa Ferreira | |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
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In office 2004–2016 |
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| Succeeded by | Manuel dos Santos |
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| Born |
Elisa Maria da Costa Guimarães Ferreira 17 October 1955 Porto, Portugal |
| Political party |
 Portuguese:Socialist Party (PS)  EU:Party of European Socialists |
| Alma mater | University of Porto |
| Profession | Economist |
Elisa Maria da Costa Guimarães Ferreira, GCC (born 17 October 1955 in Porto) is a Portuguese politician and economist, who is the current vice-governor of the Bank of Portugal. She served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Socialist Party; part of the Party of European Socialists between 2004 and 2016.
Ferreira served as Minister of Environment (1995-1999) and as Minister for Planning (1999-2001) in the government of Prime Minister António Guterres of Portugal.
Ferreira was a Member of the European Parliament from the 2004 European election until her resignation in 2016. Throughout her time in parliament, she served as a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. In this capacity, she drafted the committee’s own-initiative report on closer coordination of economic policies, which calls for the European Central Bank (ECB) to be granted powers to monitor “financial stability in the euro-area” and to be involved “in EU-wide macroprudential supervision of systematically important financial institutions.” She was also in charge of the parliament’s report on the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure in 2011 and led the parliament’s work on the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM) in 2013.
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