Adriano Moreira

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Adriano José Alves Moreira (born 15th September 1922, Macedo de Cavaleiros, Portugal), is a Portuguese statesman, deputy, politician and professor. Adriano Moreira was a top political figure in Portugal throughout the second half of the 20th century.

[edit] Education

Adriano Moreira was born in Macedo de Cavaleiros, northern Portugal and graduated in law from the University of Lisbon in 1944. Later he would be awarded a doctorate from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

[edit] Work

He is a former Portuguese minister for overseas affairs under António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo regime, former foreign minister and former Vice-President of the Portuguese Assembleia da República (Assembly of the Republic). A brief two year spell in Brazilian exile marked the short path between two political regimes (pre- and post- 1974 Carnation Revolution) for Adriano Moreira. Noted for the legislative reforms that he introduced during his two years (1961-1963) as Minister of the Overseas Provinces (Ministro do Ultramar) during the New State (at Salazar's invitation). From this period are the foundation of two university institutions in Portuguese Angola and Mozambique - Estudos Gerais Universitários de Moçambique and Estudos Gerais Universitários de Angola. His influence over CDS, the conservative party of which he was President and which he represented as a deputy in the Portuguese Parliament from 1979, was to be more permanent, and from where he was to occupy an important place in the development of post-Carnation Revolution politics.

For decades he was a professor at the Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (Technical University of Lisbon).

His published works include "A Europa em Formação", Lisboa, 1974, "Ciência Política", Lisboa, 1979, "Teoria das Relações Internacionais", Coimbra, 1996.

[edit] Decorations and affiliations

• Doctor Honoris Causa by the Aberta University, and University of Beira Interior, in Portugal; and by the Universities of Manaus, Brasília, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil.

• Member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras, Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Academia de Marinha, Academia de Ciencias Morales y Politicas de Madrid and Academia Portuguesa da História.