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José Manuel Durão Barroso

José Manuel Barroso
Jose Manuel Barroso, EU-kommissionens ordforande, under ett mote i Folketinget 2006-05-19 (1).jpg
President of the European Commission
In office
22 November 2004 – 31 October 2014
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
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
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
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
Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Preceded by Eduardo Azevedo Soares
Succeeded by José Briosa e Gala
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State of the Minister of the Internal Administration
In office
6 November 1985 – 17 August 1987
Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by José Branquinho Lobo
Personal details
Born José Manuel Durão Barroso
(1956-03-23) 23 March 1956 (age 61)
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
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Website Official website
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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 (2002–2004).

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.


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