Constança Urbano de Sousa
| Her Excellency Constança Urbano de Sousa | |
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| Minister of Internal Administration | |
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Assumed office 26 November, 2015 | |
| Prime Minister | António Costa |
| Preceded by | João Calvão da Silva |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
April 1, 1967 Coimbra, Portugal |
| Alma mater | University of Coimbra |
| Website | Minister of Internal Administration |
Maria Constança Dias Urbano de Sousa (born 1 April 1967) is a Portuguese jurist and the country's current Minister of Internal Administration.
Education
Constança Urbano de Sousa graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, in 1991, and received a postgraduate degree in European Law and a doctorate in Law from Saarland University, in Germany, in 1994 and 1997, respectively.[1]
Professional career
She taught Law in the Autonomous University of Lisbon and the Superior Institute of Police Sciences and Internal Security, as an associate Professor, since 1998. Starting 2000, she also taught European Law for Asylum and Immigration at the Free University of Brussels.[1]
She is currently the Portuguese Minister of Internal Administration, in António Costa's cabinet.[2][1]
From 2006 to 2012, she was coordinated the Justice and Internal Affairs group of Portugal's Permanent Representation to the European Union. For six years, she headed the national delegation to the Strategic Committee on Immigration, Frontiers and Asylum of the European Union, which she chaired in 2007, and was part of other commitees of Council of the European Union.[1]
Personal life
She was born in the civil parish (freguesia) of Sé Nova, in Coimbra, the daughter of former Ombudsman Alfredo José de Sousa and Maria Clara Pires Dias Urbano de Sousa.[3]
She lives in Cascais,[3] a cosmopolitan suburb of the Portuguese capital.
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Constança Urbano de Sousa - Minister of Internal Administration". Government of Portugal. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ↑ Decree of the President of the Republic, No. 129-C/2015 of 26 November (in Portuguese). Retrieved on 19 June 2017.
- 1 2 "Eleições para a Assembleia da República: Lista numerada dos Candidatos do Partido Socialista pelo Círculo Eleitoral do Porto" [Elections to the Assembly of the Republic: List of Candidates of the Socialist Party for the Porto Constituency] (PDF). Câmara Municipal de Póvoa do Varzim. Retrieved 19 June 2017.