Luís Montenegro, the designated Prime Minister, has selected Gonçalo Saraiva Matias to take on a new role in the second Government of the AD coalition. Starting this Thursday, he will serve as the Minister Adjunto and for State Reform, stepping down from his position as President of the Board of Directors at the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation.
Gonçalo Saraiva Matias, born in 1979 in Lisbon, is a professor at the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University, where he completed his undergraduate (2002), master's (2010), and doctoral (2014) degrees. Despite being a newcomer to the ministerial position, he has had a brief governmental experience. In 2015, he was the Secretary of State Adjunto and for Administrative Modernization in the XX Constitutional Government of Passos Coelho.
Currently, he is a member of the National Council for Migration and Asylum, the Management Board of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, and a conciliator at the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration. His career also includes roles as an advisor for Legal and Constitutional Affairs in the Civil House of the President of the Republic and as a consultant for the office of the Secretary of State for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of the XV Constitutional Government.
Between 2014 and 2015, before joining Passos Coelho's Government, Saraiva Matias was the Director of the Migration Observatory. In 2016, he was awarded the Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry, and in 2025, the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit.
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