Armindo Maia

Armindo Maia (2020)

Armindo Maia is an academic and politician from East Timor . Maia holds a Masters Degree in Philosophy from Massey University , New Zealand . He is a member of FRETILIN .

Life

From the establishment of the Universidade Nasionál Timór Lorosa'e (UNTL) on November 15, 2000 he was the rector of the university. He was already (at least since 1997) until 1999 Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs and Rector in the service of the previous institution, the Universitas Timor Timur (UnTim). When it was founded in 1986, he was a member of the first university in East Timor and was politically active in the independence movement. Since he worked with dissidents from the East Timorese in the USA, his freedoms were restricted by the Indonesian regime on his return . It was actually expected that Natalino Monteiro , the pro-Indonesian vice-rector for student affairs, would receive the vacant rector post. Maia had numerous supporters among the student body, so that Monteiro failed.

On September 30, 2001, the non-party Maia became Minister for Education, Culture and Youth in the transitional government under Sérgio Vieira de Mello , the United Nations administrator for East Timor. Maia kept this post in the first government of East Timor under Prime Minister Marí Alkatiri ( FRETILIN ) from May 20, 2002, with responsibility for education, culture, youth and sport. On July 26, 2005, the cabinet was reshuffled and Maia only retained direct responsibility for education and culture. State Secretary José Manuel Fernandes was now responsible for youth and sport . With the arrival of the new government under Prime Minister José Ramos-Horta on July 14, 2006, Maia gave up his ministerial office to Rosária Corte-Real .

Maia returned to UNTL, where he worked as a Senior Lecturer in 2010. Since July 13, 2012 he has been at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific as a PhD candidate in the State, Society and Governance Melanesia Program .

With the change in the government coalition and the admission of FRETILIN to the 8th government , Maia was sworn in again as Minister for Education, Youth and Sport MEJD on May 29, 2020.

Honors

On May 20, 2011 Maia was awarded the Insígnia des Ordem de Timor-Leste .

Web links

Commons : Armindo Maia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Area Studies: East Timor (r) ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b} Website of the government of Timor-Leste: II UNTAET Transitional Government (English)
3. ↑ UNTL Library Project: First Period ( Memento from May 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
4. ^ ^{A b} Charles Darwin University: Final UNTL VRF Presentation for 2010: The Rise and Fall of Secular Nationalism in East Timor ( Memento of May 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
5. ^ East Timor's unfinished struggle: Inside the Timorese resistance, South End Press, 1997, p. 247
6. ^ Yale News: Conference on Autonomy for East Timor, Feb.26, 1997
7. ↑ Mastersof Terror: Natalino Monteiro
8. ↑ ^{a b} Website of the government of Timor-Leste: I Constitutional Government (English)
9. ^ Australian National University
10. ↑ Prime Minister of East Timor: Estrutura orgânica do VIII Governo Constitucional toma de posse completo-re estruturado 2020 , June 24, 2020 , accessed on June 25, 2020.
11. ↑ Jornal da República: Decreto do Presidente da República n ° 34/2011 de 20 Maio , accessed on March 31.