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The Leaders of
Government
From 1979 to 1984 he was a member of the European Human Rights Commission
of the Council of Europe.
In 1989, he was elected Mayor of Lisbon and re-elected in 1993.
In 1995, Jorge Sampaio stood for President of Portugal and was elected on the first
ballot and sworn in as President in March 1996. In 2001 he was re-elected for a
second term which ended in March 2006.
During the last decade, President Sampaio gave his contribution to several issues,
related to European affairs and to almost all the challenges currently facing the
international community, ie pandemics like HIV-AIDS, Drugs, Children, Human
Rights, East Timor, etc.
In May 2006, he was appointed by the United Nations’ Secretary-General as his first
Special Envoy to Stop TB.
The Honourable
José Sócrates
Prime Minister,
Portugal
José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa became Prime Minister of Portugal on
March 12, 2005. He has been Secretary General of the Portuguese Socialist Party
since September 2004.
Before his current tenure, he held Government offices as Secretary of State to the
Minister of Environment in 1995-1997, as Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister
in 1997-1999 and as Minister of Environment and Territorial Planning in 1999-
2002. He also served as the Socialist Party’s Spokesman for environmental issues
in 1991-2002 and as a member of the Party’s Political Committee and National
Secretariat in 1991-2004. He was elected to the Portuguese Parliament in 1987,
and was a Member of Parliament in 1987-1995 and 2002-2005, where he held
positions as Vice-President of the Socialist Parliamentary Group and member of the
Parliament’s Defence Committee and Standing Committee.
Born in Vilar de Maçada on September 6, 1957, he holds a degree in Civil Engineering
and post-Graduate diplomas in Sanitary Engineering and Business Administration.
T h e Leaders of Gov e r n m e n t
The Honourable
Marta Suplicy
Minister of Tourism,
Brazil
Minister Marta Suplicy has held the position of Minister of Tourism since
March 2007. Marta Suplicy is a member of the government of President Luiz Inacio
Lula da Silva, in his second term. From 2001 to 2004, she was the mayor of the
city of Sao Paulo. In 2004 she also presided over the international entity named
United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) – the fusion of three of the main
world entities of mayors: World Federation of United Cities (WFUC), International
Union of Local Authorities (IULA), and Metropolis (a network formed by cities
with more than one million inhabitants). Affiliated to the Workers’ Party (PT), the
President’s own party, Marta Suplicy was a Federal Representative from 1995 to
1998. During her term, she was twice chosen (1996 and 1997) as one of the
most active congress people in National Congress by the DIAP – Inter-Union
Department of Parliamentary Advising Services.
Psychologist and psychoanalyst. Marta Suplicy majored in psychology in Sao
Paulo at PUC and she has a Masters in Clinical Psychology from Michigan State
University and pursued her Graduate Studies at Stanford University. She is a member
of the Brazilian Society of Psychoanalysis and a Member of the International
Psychoanalytical Association (IPA).
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