Her Excellency Constanca Urbano de Sousa
Minister of Internal Administration
In office 26 November 2015 ? 18 October 2017
Prime Minister	Antonio Costa
Preceded by	Joao Calvao da Silva
Succeeded by	Eduardo Cabrita
Personal details
Born	( 1967-04-01 ) April 1, 1967 (age 57) Coimbra , Portugal
Alma mater	University of Coimbra
Website	Minister of Internal Administration

Maria Constanca Dias Urbano de Sousa (born 1 April 1967) is a Portuguese jurist and the country's former Minister of Internal Administration .

Education [ edit ]

Constanca 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 [ edit ]

She is a former Portuguese Minister of Internal Administration , in Antonio Costa 's cabinet . ^{[2] [1]} During her tenure, Portugal experienced the deadliest wildfires ever, firstly in Pedrogao Grande in June 2017 (65 dead) and later across the country in October 2017 (41 dead). ^[3] In the sequence of the wildfires in Portugal in June and October , Constanca Urbano de Sousa resigned on 18 October 2017. ^[4]

From 2006 to 2012, she 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 committees of Council of the European Union . ^[1]

Personal life [ edit ]

She was born in the civil parish ( freguesia ) of Se Nova , in Coimbra , the daughter of former Ombudsman Alfredo Jose de Sousa and Maria Clara Pires Dias Urbano de Sousa. ^[5]

She lives in Cascais , ^[5] a cosmopolitan suburb of the Portuguese capital.

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