Isabel Cristina Fernandes Rodrigues Ferreira | |
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Member of the Assembly of the Republic | |
Assumed office 26 March 2024 | |
Constituency | Bragança |
Secretary of State for Regional Development | |
In office March 2022 –April 2024 | |
Secretary of State for Upgrading the Interior | |
In office October 2019 –March 2022 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Nampula,Portuguese Mozambique | 2 January 1974
Political party | Independent |
Alma mater | University of Porto;University of Minho |
Isabel Cristina Fernandes Rodrigues Ferreira (born 1974) is a Portuguese scientist specialising in the agri-food sector,and a politician. Between 2019 and 2022 she was Secretary of State for Upgrading the Interior and between 2022 and 2024,she was Secretary of State for Regional Development. In the March 2024 national election she was elected to the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic to represent Bragança. [1]
Ferreira was born on 2 January 1974,in Nampula in Portuguese Mozambique. Her family moved to Bragança in Portugal when she was eleven months old. She obtained a degree in biochemistry from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto and a master's degree and PhD in chemistry from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Minho. [2] [3] [4]
Ferreira is a principal coordinating professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança. She has also served as vice-president of the institute and as director of the Mountain Research Centre of the institute and a mentor at the Mountains Research Collaborative Laboratory (MORE). Her extensive research has led to the publication of 60 book chapters and more than 600 scientific articles. She also has several patents to her name,mainly resulting from technology transfer to industry. [3] [4]
Ferreira has been president of the Scientific Council of Natural and Environmental Sciences of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). She has been editor-in-chief of the natural and artificial antioxidants section of Antioxidants ,associate editor of Food &Function ,a journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry,and has been on the editorial board of Food and Chemical Toxicology ,among others. [3] [4]
In 2019,Ferreira was appointed as Secretary of State for Upgrading the Interior within the newly created Ministry of Territorial Cohesion,as an independent in the government formed by the Socialist Party (PS) under prime minister António Costa. After the 2022 election the name was changed to Secretary of State for Regional Development. The main headquarters of her department was decentralized and located in Bragança,as an indication of the commitment of the Portuguese government to try to overcome depopulation in mountainous and other rural areas. In working to achieve this she collaborated closely with neighbouring areas in Spain that face similar problems. [1] [5]
Following the defeat of the PS in the 2024 election,Ferreira ceased to be a secretary of state. However,she had been nominated at the top of the list of PS candidates for the Bragança constituency and was elected to the national assembly,as the only PS representative in the three-seat constituency. [6] [7]
Awards received by Ferreira have included: [1] [3] [4]
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