José Manuel Barroso | |
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President of the European Commission | |
In office 22 November 2004 – 31 October 2014 |
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Vice President |
Margot Wallström Cathy Ashton |
Preceded by | Romano Prodi |
Succeeded by | Jean-Claude Juncker |
115th Prime Minister of Portugal | |
In office 6 April 2002 – 17 July 2004 |
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President | Jorge Sampaio |
Preceded by | António Guterres |
Succeeded by | Pedro Santana Lopes |
President of the Social Democratic Party | |
In office 1 May 1999 – 12 November 2004 |
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Deputy | José Luís Arnaut |
Preceded by | Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa |
Succeeded by | Pedro Santana Lopes |
Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 12 November 1992 – 28 October 1995 |
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Prime Minister | Aníbal Cavaco Silva |
Preceded by | João de Deus Pinheiro |
Succeeded by | Jaime Gama |
Secretary of State of External Affairs and Cooperation | |
In office 17 August 1987 – 12 November 1992 |
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Prime Minister | Aníbal Cavaco Silva |
Preceded by | Eduardo Azevedo Soares |
Succeeded by | José Briosa e Gala |
Adjunct Secretary of State of the Minister of the Internal Administration | |
In office 6 November 1985 – 17 August 1987 |
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Prime Minister | Aníbal Cavaco Silva |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | José Branquinho Lobo |
Personal details | |
Born |
José Manuel Durão Barroso 23 March 1956 Porto, Portugal |
Political party |
Workers' Communist Party (Before 1976) Social Democratic Party (1976–present) |
Spouse(s) | Maria Margarida Sousa Uva (m. 1980–2016); widowed |
Children | 3 |
Alma mater |
University of Lisbon University of Geneva Georgetown University |
Signature | |
Website |
Official website Official Media Gallery |
José Manuel Durão Barroso (ipa: [ʒuˈzɛ mɐˈnu̯ɛl duˈɾɐ̃u̯ bɐˈʁozu], born 23 March 1956) is a Portuguese politician who is the current non-executive chairman at Goldman Sachs International. Previously he was the 11th President of the European Commission (2004–14) and the 115th Prime Minister of Portugal (2002–4).
Durão Barroso (as he is known in Portugal) graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon and has an MSc in Economic and Social Sciences from the University of Geneva (Institut européen de l'université de Genève) in Switzerland. His academic career continued as an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. He did research for a PhD at Georgetown University and Georgetown's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C. but his CV does not list any doctoral degree (except honorary). He is a 1998 graduate of the Georgetown Leadership Seminar. Back in Lisbon, Barroso became director of the Department for International Relations at Lusíada University (Universidade Lusíada).
Barroso is now a policy fellow at the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University and the Frederick H. Schultz Class of 1951 Visiting Professor of International Economic Policy at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Woodrow Wilson School, where he teaches with Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber on the EU in International Affairs. Barroso also teaches at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and at the University of Geneva. At Católica Global School of Law, he teaches since 2015 the seminar on "The Dynamics of European Union Institutions", for both LL.M. programmes – Law in a European and Global Context and International Business Law.