Madalena Boavida

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Maria Madalena Brites Boavida is an East Timorese politician. She is a member of FRETILIN .

Career

Boavida comes from what is now the municipality of Ermera . Thanks to a scholarship, she was given the opportunity to study in Portugal in 1974 . There she came into contact with students from the African colonies of Portugal and the independence movements there, after which she also campaigned for the independence of Portuguese Timor . But just nine days after East Timor declared independence by FRETILIN, Indonesia occupied the country. Boavida belonged to the so-called Maputo group , FRETILIN members, like the future Prime Minister Marí Alkatiri , who spent the occupation (1975-1999) in Mozambique .

After Fernanda Borges resigned , Boavida became East Timor's Minister of Finance on April 30, 2002 . Initially under the administration of the United Nations , from May 20, 2002 in the independent East Timor. Before that, she was the financial director of the Timor Gap authority, with which East Timor and Australia wanted to jointly exploit the oil and gas fields in the controversial sea area . Boavida held the office until August 8, 2007, when FRETILIN had to give up the government after losing an absolute majority in the 2007 parliamentary elections . Emília Pires became the new finance minister .

In 2013 Boavida was appointed a non-executive board member of the Central Bank of East Timor .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Madalena Boavida toma posse nas Finanças , April 30, 2002 , accessed on May 9, 2016.
  2. ↑ Hannah Loney: 'The Target of a Double Exploitation': Gender and Nationalism in Portuguese Timor, 1974-75 , Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, Issue 37, March 2015 , accessed May 9, 2016.
  3. ↑ Damien Kingsbury: East Timor: The Price of Liberty , 2009 , accessed May 9, 2016.
  4. ↑ Website of the government of Timor-Leste: II UNTAET Transitional Government (English)
  5. ^ Website of the government of Timor-Leste: I Constitutional Government (English)
  6. ^ Website of the government of Timor-Leste: II Constitutional Government (English)
  7. ↑ Website of the government of Timor-Leste: III Constitutional Government (English)
  8. ^ Website of the government of Timor-Leste: The Fourth Constitutional Government of East Timor
  9. ↑ Abreu International: Legal News , accessed on May 9, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Boavida, Madalena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boavida, Maria Madalena Brites (full name); Boavida, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese politician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century