Catarina Vaz Pinto

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Catarina Vaz Pinto
Born (1960-06-15) 15 June 1960 (age 65)
Goa, Portuguese India
Alma mater
EmployerCity of Lisbon
TitleCouncillor of Culture
Spouse
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(m. 2001)​

Catarina Vaz Pinto (born 15 June 1960) [1] is a Portuguese politician. She is the councillor of culture for the City of Lisbon [2] and previously was the State Secretary of Culture and Deputy Minister of Culture in the Government of Portugal. [3]

Born in Goa, [4] Vaz Pinto holds a law degree from the Portuguese Catholic University and a postgraduate degree in European Studies from the College of Europe. She previously served as the Executive Coordinator of the Gulbenkian Programme for Creativity and Artistic Creation/Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and as a consultant for Quaternaire in the area of cultural projects and policy. [5] She was executive director and lecturer in the postgraduate degree in Cultural Management for Cities at the Institute for Business Management Development and co-founder/chief executive of Fórum Dança Cultural Association. [6] In 2016, she received the insignia of the Order of Arts and Letters from the Government of France. [7]

Vaz Pinto currently serves as patron of the Women's International Forum. [8]

She is married to António Guterres, former Prime Minister of Portugal who currently serves as Secretary-General of the United Nations. [9]

References

  1. ↑ "PM sneaks off to get married". www.theportugalnews.com. Archived from the original on 29 January 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  2. ↑ Summit, Culture (1 August 2018), Catarina Vaz Pinto on Culture - 2018 Edinburgh International Culture Summit , retrieved 28 January 2019
  3. ↑ "Catarina Vaz Pinto". Edinburgh International Culture Summit. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  4. ↑ "The Goa connection with the UN". oHeraldo. 15 October 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  5. ↑ teixeira, patricia. "Catarina Vaz Pinto". www.artemrede.pt (in European Portuguese). Archived from the original on 21 March 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  6. ↑ Edinburgh International Culture Summit (August 2018), Catarina Vaz Pinto on Culture - 2018 Edinburgh International Culture Summit , retrieved 28 January 2019
  7. ↑ "Sítio da Câmara Municipal de Lisboa: Catarina Vaz Pinto awarded at the French Embassy". www.cm-lisboa.pt. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  8. ↑ "Message from the Patron – Mrs. Catarina Vaz Pinto | WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL FORUM (WIF)" . Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  9. ↑ Wise, Peter. "Who is António Guterres, the new head of the United Nations?". The Irish Times. Retrieved 28 January 2019.


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