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Miguel Frasquilho

Miguel Frasquilho
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Chairman of the Board of TAP Portugal
Assumed office
March 2017
President & CEO of AICEP Portugal Global
Assumed office
24 April 2014
Preceded by Pedro Reis
Secretary of State
of the Treasury and Finances
In office
8 April 2002 – 8 April 2003
Prime Minister José Manuel Durão Barroso
Preceded by Rodolfo Vasco Lavrador
Succeeded by Francisco Esteves de Carvalho
Deputy of the Assembly of the Republic
Elections: 2002, 2005, 2009, 2011
In office
5 April 2002 – 22 October 2015
Constituency (2009-2015)
Porto District
(2005-2009)
Guarda District
(2002-2005)
Setúbal District
Personal details
Born Miguel Jorge Reis Antunes Frasquilho
12 November 1965
Setúbal, Portugal
Political party Social Democratic Party
Alma mater Catholic University of Portugal

Dr. Miguel Reis Antunes Frasquilho is a Portuguese economist and politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party, Frasquilho served in the Portuguese Parliament for 13 years, where he was Vice-President of the PSD Parliamentary Group. He also served as as Secretary of State of the Treasury and Finances from 2002 to 2003, in José Manuel Barroso's short-lived government prior to becoming president of the EU Commission.

He currently serves as the President and CEO of AICEP Portugal Global, the Portuguese Government's Trade & Investment Agency. In March 2017, Frasquilho was selected to be the Chairman of the Board of TAP Portugal, Portugal's flag carrier airline.

Miguel Jorge Reis Antunes Frasquilho was born on 12 November 1965, in Setúbal, Portugal, to Fernando José Antunes Frasquilho, an official in the merchant navy, and Maria Susete Reis Antunes Frasquilho, a professor. He is nephew to Manuel Antunes Frasquilho, former president of the Port of Lisbon and the Lisbon Metro, and cousin to Portuguese-American executive Helder Antunes.

He earned his degree in economics from the Faculty of Economics and Business (current Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics) of the Catholic University of Portugal in 1988 and a Masters in Economic Theory, from the Nova School of Business and Economics, in the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in 1997. He taught various disciplines in Economy and Quantitative Method in the Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics and Nova School of Business and Economics.


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