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Manuela Ferreira Leite

Her Excellency
Manuela Ferreira Leite
GCC GCIH
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President of Social Democratic Party
In office
20 June 2008 – 9 April 2010
Deputy Luís Marques Guedes
Preceded by Luís Filipe Menezes
Succeeded by Pedro Passos Coelho
Minister of State
In office
6 April 2002 – 17 July 2004
Prime Minister José Manuel Barroso
Minister of Finance
In office
6 April 2002 – 17 July 2004
Prime Minister José Manuel Barroso
Preceded by Guilherme d'Oliveira Martins
Succeeded by Bagão Félix
Minister of Education
In office
7 December 1993 – 28 October 1995
Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Preceded by António Couto dos Santos
Succeeded by Eduardo Marçal Grilo
Secretary of State for the Budget
In office
5 January 1990 – 7 December 1993
Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Preceded by Rui Carp
Succeeded by Norberto Rosa
Personal details
Born (1940-12-03) 3 December 1940 (age 76)
Lisbon, Portugal
Political party Social Democratic Party
Spouse(s) Rui Leite (divorced)
Children 3
Alma mater Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão
Occupation Pundit
Politician (retired)
Profession Economist
Religion Roman Catholicism
Awards Order of Christ Order of Prince Henry

Maria Manuela Dias Ferreira Leite GCC GCIH (born Lisbon, 3 December 1940), commonly known as Manuela Ferreira Leite (Portuguese pronunciation: [mɐnuˈɛlɐ fɨˈʁɐjɾɐ ˈlɐjtɨ]), is a Portuguese economist, pundit and retired politician.

She was born in Cerdeira, Arganil. Manuela Ferreira Leite comes from a family of many generations of famous lawyers, but she has chosen to follow finance and economics instead. Her brother José Eugénio Dias Ferreira is a Lisbon lawyer and a political commentator and sports commentator. She is a daughter of Carlos Eugénio Dias Ferreira (b. Lisbon, 18 May 1908), a Licentiate in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon and a lawyer, and wife Julieta Teixeira de Carvalho, a Licentiate in Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico of the Technical University of Lisbon and an engineer, daughter of José Teixeira de Carvalho and wife Etelvina Ferreira de Carvalho. Her paternal grandfather José Eugénio Dias Ferreira (Lisbon, 13 November 1882 – Lisbon, 17 January 1953) was also a lawyer from the University of Coimbra, being a natural son of Minister and Counselor José Dias Ferreira by an unknown mother.


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