Mariana Vieira da Silva

Her Excellency
Mariana Vieira da Silva
Her Excellency Mariana Vieira da Silva
Minister of the Presidency
	In office ; 26 October 2019 ? 2 April 2024
Prime Minister	Antonio Costa
Preceded by	Herself (as Minister of the Presidency and Administrative Modernisation )
Succeeded by	Antonio Leitao Amaro
Minister of the Presidency and Administrative Modernisation
	In office ; 18 February 2019 ? 26 October 2019
Prime Minister	Antonio Costa
Preceded by	Maria Manuel Leitao Marques
Succeeded by	Herself (as Minister of the Presidency ) ; Alexandra Leitao (as Minister for Administrative Modernisation)
Secretary of State Adjunct to the Prime Minister
	In office ; 26 November 2015 ? 18 February 2019
Prime Minister	Antonio Costa
Preceded by	Carlos Moedas
Succeeded by	Duarte Cordeiro
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 26 March 2024
Constituency	Lisbon
Personal details
Born	8 May 1978 (age 46) ; Lisboa , Portugal
Political party	Socialist Party
Relatives	Jose Antonio Vieira da Silva (father)
Alma mater	ISCTE ? University Institute of Lisbon

Mariana Guimaraes Vieira da Silva (born 8 May 1978 ^[1]) is a Portuguese sociologist and politician who served as Minister of the Presidency in Antonio Costa 's XXIII Constitutional Government , effectively in second in the government. ^[2]^[3]

Early life and education [ edit ]

Mariana Vieira da Silva is the daughter of politician Jose Antonio Vieira da Silva , ^[4] himself a government minister in the Socialist cabinets of Jose Socrates and Antonio Costa , and economist Margarida Guimaraes. She has a brother, Miguel Vieira da Silva, who is a musician. ^[1] In her youth, between the ages of 9 and 19, Vieira da Silva was a competitive swimmer for Sporting CP , specialising in the demanding 200 metres butterfly stroke . ^[1]^[5]

Vieira da Silva earned a licentiate degree in Sociology from ISCTE ? University Institute of Lisbon , in 2002, ^[1] and has not yet concluded her doctorate in Public Policy (she has finished the coursework but has not yet presented her dissertation on the subject of health and education policies in Portugal). ^[2]

Political career [ edit ]

Around the time of the campaign for the 2002 legislative election , Vieira da Silva joined the Socialist Party 's political movement Movimento Imaginar Portugal ; she became a member of the party shortly after that year's electoral loss. ^[1] From 2005 to 2009, she worked in an advisory capacity in the office of the Minister of Education Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues . From 2009 to 2011, Vieira da Silva served in an adjunct capacity in the office of the Secretary of State Adjunct to the Prime Minister, Jose Almeida Ribeiro. ^[2]

In November 2015, Vieira da Silva became part of the XXI Constitutional Government as Secretary of State Adjunct to the Prime Minister, until February 2019, when she replaced Maria Manuel Leitao Marques (elected Member of the European Parliament ) as Minister of the Presidency and of Administrative Modernisation. ^[2]

References [ edit ]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Tavares, Rita (13 April 2018). "Mariana Vieira da Silva: a mulher que atende o primeiro-ministro ate dentro de agua" [Mariana Vieira da Silva: the woman who answers the Prime Minister's call even while swimming]. Observador (in Portuguese) . Retrieved 28 December 2020 .
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Mariana Vieira da Silva, Ministra de Estado e da Presidencia" . portugal.gov.pt (in Portuguese) . Retrieved 28 December 2020 .
^ "Mariana Vieira da Silva, ministra da Presidencia e "numero dois" do Governo" . SIC Noticias . Retrieved 25 March 2022 .
^ Ivo Oliveira (28 March 2019), Family affair rocks Portuguese government Politico Europe .
^ Tavares, Rita. "Mariana Vieira da Silva. A mulher que atende o primeiro-ministro ate dentro de agua" . Observador (in European Portuguese) . Retrieved 2024-02-23 .

External links [ edit ]

Media related to Mariana Vieira da Silva at Wikimedia Commons

[Tavares2018-1] Tavares, Rita (13 April 2018). "Mariana Vieira da Silva: a mulher que atende o primeiro-ministro ate dentro de agua" [Mariana Vieira da Silva: the woman who answers the Prime Minister's call even while swimming]. Observador (in Portuguese) . Retrieved 28 December 2020 .

[govprofile-2] "Mariana Vieira da Silva, Ministra de Estado e da Presidencia" . portugal.gov.pt (in Portuguese) . Retrieved 28 December 2020 .

[3] "Mariana Vieira da Silva, ministra da Presidencia e "numero dois" do Governo" . SIC Noticias . Retrieved 25 March 2022 .

[4] Ivo Oliveira (28 March 2019), Family affair rocks Portuguese government Politico Europe .

[5] Tavares, Rita. "Mariana Vieira da Silva. A mulher que atende o primeiro-ministro ate dentro de agua" . Observador (in European Portuguese) . Retrieved 2024-02-23 .

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