Carlos Moedas
Mayor of Lisbon
PORTUGAL
Carlos Moedas was born in Beja in 1970 and graduated in Civil Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico in 1993. The final year of his university studies was completed at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris (1993)
In 1998, he went to the United States and joined Harvard University, where he earned a Master in Business Administration (1998/2000).
He began his career at the Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux Group in France, where he lived for five years. He worked for several years in the City of London, notably at the investment bank Goldman Sachs.
In 2004, he returned to Portugal to lead the company Aguirre Newman, where he was also a member of the Executive Committee of the Group in Spain. In 2008, he founded his own investment management company.
He was part of the Social Democratic Party team that negotiated the State Budget for 2011 and was one of the party’s representatives in meetings with the delegations of the European Union and the International Monetary Fund as part of the economic and financial adjustment program.
In 2011, he was elected as a deputy for the Beja constituency and became the Deputy Secretary of State to the Prime Minister of the XIX Constitutional Government, responsible for coordinating the adjustment program.
In 2014, he was appointed by the Prime Minister as a member of the European Commission. He is the Commissioner for Research, Innovation, and Science, managing one of the world’s largest science and innovation programs (€77 billion). He was the architect of the proposal for a future Horizon Europe program of €100 billion, which will come into effect in 2021. He is the fifth Portuguese member of the European Commission since Portugal’s entry into the then EEC in 1986.
In 2019, he became a director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He is also Vice-President of the Jacques Delors Institute in Paris.
He co-authored several publications in the field of Innovation and Science, including the article “Open Innovation: Research, Practices, and Policies” in the prestigious California Management Review, co-authored with the creator of the Open Innovation concept, Henry Chesbrough.
In 2014, he was elected the youngest member of the Academy of Engineering of Portugal. He is also an honorary member of the African Academy of Sciences. In 2016, he received an Honorary Doctorate in Law from the University of Cork in Ireland, and in 2018, an Honorary Doctorate from ESCP Europe (École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris).
On September 26, 2021, Carlos Moedas was elected Mayor of Lisbon.
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