João Leão
João Rodrigo Reis Carvalho Leão (born February 15, 1974 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese economist who has been an independent member of the Costa II cabinet since June 2020, succeeding Mário Centeno in the role of Finance Minister of Portugal.
Career
Leão, who can look back on a family background from Goa , studied economics at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
From 2008 he worked at the ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa as a professor of economics. Prior to his appointment as Minister of Finance, Leão had been State Secretary for the Budget since 2015. After Centeno surprisingly resigned in June 2020, Leão was appointed his country's new finance minister. Besides António Costa and Nelson de Souza, he is the third person with roots in Goa to take a seat in the current cabinet.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Goan origin João Leão will be Portugal's finance minister. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .
António Costa (PS) | Pedro Siza Vieira (independent) | Mariana Vieira da Silva (PS) | Augusto Santos Silva (PS) | Mário Centeno (independent) | João Gomes Cravinho (independent) | Eduardo Cabrita (PS) | Francisca Van Dunem (independent) | Alexandra Leitão (PS) | Ana Mendes Godinho (PS) | Manuel Heitor (PS) | Nelson de Souza (PS) | Pedro Nuno Santos (PS) | João Matos Fernandes (PS) | Marta Temido (independent) | Tiago Brandão Rodrigues (independent) | Graça Fonseca (PS) | Ana Abrunhosa (independent) | Maria do Céu Albuquerque (PS) | Ricardo Serrão Santos (PS)
Eurogroup members: Johan Van Overtveldt (Belgium) | Olaf Scholz (Germany) | Martin Helme (Estonia) | Alexander Stubb (Finland) | Bruno Le Maire (France) | Efklidis Tsakalotos (Greece) | Michael Noonan (Ireland) | Roberto Gualtieri (Italy) | Jānis Reirs (Latvia) | Vilius Šapoka (Lithuania) | Pierre Gramegna (Luxembourg) | Edward Scicluna (Malta) | Wopke Hoekstra (Netherlands) | Gernot Blümel (Austria) | Mário Centeno (Portugal) | Peter Kažimír (Slovakia) | Andrej Bertoncelj (Slovenia) | Cristóbal Montoro (Spain) | Harris Georgiades (Republic of Cyprus)
No members of the Euro Group: Vladislav Goranov (Bulgaria) | Kristian Jensen (Denmark) | Boris Lalovac (Croatia) | (vacant) (Poland) | Viorel Ștefan (Romania) | Magdalena Andersson (Sweden) | Alena Schillerová (Czech Republic) | Mihály Varga (Hungary)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leão, João |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reis Carvalho Leão, João Rodrigo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese economist and finance minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lisbon , Portugal |