President of Portugal
The current President of Portugal is Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who took office on 9 March 2016.
Maria João Rodrigues
Maria João Rodrigues , ., is a Portuguese academic, expert in EU affairs and a European politician, currently Member of the European Parliament and Vice-President of the Group of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) since 2014. Since 2017 she is also President of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS).
Her political career began as Minister of Employment of Portugal in the first government of Prime Minister António Guterres (1995–1997) and she was policy maker working in several posts in the European Institutions since 2000, notably in the leading teams of EU Presidencies. She is an expert on EU political economy and has notably served as Special Advisor to a number of elected representatives at both Portuguese and EU level, in particular to former Prime Minister António Guterres, the current Secretary General of United Nations, to several European Commissioners and to the former President of the Party of European Socialists Poul Nyrup Rasmussen).