Isabel Estrada Carvalhais

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Isabel Estrada Carvalhais (born February 28, 1973 in Negage , Portuguese Angola ) is a Portuguese political scientist and politician. Carvalhais has been a member of the European Parliament since September 2019 , in which she moved up as an independent on the list of the Partido Socialista for the late André Bradford .

Life

Education and academic career

Isabel Estrada Carvalhais was born on February 28, 1973 in Negage, in the north of what was then the Portuguese colony of Angola. In the course of independence, her family moved to northern Portugal. After completing school, Carvalhais studied sociology at the University of Coimbra, graduating with a master's degree. From 1991 to 1995 she completed a Bachelor in International Relations at the University of Minho . From 1997 she worked as a research assistant at the University of Minho.

From 2000 to 2003 she did her PhD in Sociology at the University of Warwick , then returned to Portugal. From 2010 she headed the Research Center for Political Science and International Relations (Núcleo de Investigação em Ciência Política e Relações Intenacionais) at the University of Minho. From 2012 she headed the BA program in Political Science, and from 2018 she held a professorship for Political Science and International Relations at the same university.

politics

For the 2019 European elections , the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) nominated Carvalhais for tenth place on the list. In the election, the socialists won 9 of the 21 Portuguese mandates with 33.4 percent, so that Carvalhais missed the direct entry.

Shortly after the constitution of parliament on July 2, 2019, the Portuguese MP André Bradford died on July 18, 2019. Carvalhais then replaced him after the parliament's summer recess on September 3, 2019, and she also joined the S&D group . Carvalhais also took over his seat on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development , as well as his alternate membership in the Committee on Regional Development and the Fisheries Committee .

Private

She is married and has one child.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Universidade do Minho: CICP - Isabel Estrada Carvalhais. Retrieved November 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ LISTA DE CANDIDATOS. In: PS Europeias. Retrieved December 22, 2019 (European Portuguese).
  3. ^ Isabel Estrada Carvalhais será a substituta de Bradford. In: Diario de Noticias. July 18, 2019, accessed November 24, 2019 (Portuguese).
  4. ↑ Home | Isabel CARVALHAIS | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved December 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Carvalhais, Isabel Estrada
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carvalhais, Isabel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese political scientist and politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Negage , Portuguese Angola