Ana Abrunhosa

Ana Maria Pereira Abrunhosa Trigueiros de Aragão (born 4 July 1970) is a Portuguese economist and politician serving as Minister for Territorial Cohesion since October 2019.

This name uses Portuguese naming customs: the first or maternal family name is Pereira and the second or paternal family name is Abrunhosa.
Her Excellency

Ana Abrunhosa
Minister for Territorial Cohesion
Assumed office
26 October 2019
Prime MinisterAntónio Costa
Preceded byLuís Marques Guedes (as Minister of the Premiership and Regional Development)
Personal details
Born (1970-07-04) 4 July 1970
Angola
Political partyNo affiliation[1]
Spouse(s)António Infante da Câmara Trigueiros de Aragão
Alma materUniversity of Coimbra

She has a doctorate in economics from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, and has taught several subjects there since 1995, such as microeconomics, regional economics, and European economics. She was also a researcher at the university's Centre for Social Studies.[2]

Politically unaffiliated, she had held public offices dealing with regional development and innovation management under both António Costa's centre-left government (PS) and the preceding Pedro Passos Coelho centre-right government (PSD).[1] Before becoming Minister, among other positions, she was President of the Centro Regional Coordination and Development Commission (2014–2019) — which, notably, coincided with the devastating June 2017 Portugal wildfires —, President of the Management Board of the Centro Regional Operational Programme (2014–2019), President of the Investment Committee of the Urban Instrument for Rehabilitation and Revitalisation (2016–2019), President of the General Council of the Debt & Guarantees Fund of the Financial Development Institution (2017–2018) and of the General Council of the Capital & Quasi-Capital Fund (2019), and President of the EuroACE Working Community and Euroregion (2018–2019).[2]

She has expressed a wish to run for Mayor of Coimbra as an independent in the future.[1]

Her second and current husband is António Trigueiros de Aragão, CEO of Fábricas Lusitana, a Portuguese food manufacturer, famous for the production of Branca de Neve flour. Her husband is a claimant to the title of 7th Count of Idanha-a-Nova.[3]

References
  1. Martins, Christiana; Mateus, Joana Nunes; Matos, Vítor (15 January 2020). "Ana Abrunhosa, ministra da Coesão: "O Ministério foi feito um bocadinho à minha medida"" [Ana Abrunhosa, Minister for Cohesion: "The Ministry was somewhat tailored for me"]. Expresso (in Portuguese). Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  2. "Ana Abrunhosa, Minister for Territorial Cohesion". portugal.gov.pt. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  3. Lito, Raquel (17 November 2019). "Ana Abrunhosa: ministra sim, condessa um dia" [Ana Abrunhosa: minister, yes; countess, one day]. Sábado (in Portuguese). Retrieved 16 December 2020.
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