Ana Abrunhosa

Ana Maria Pereira Abrunhosa was born in Angola in 1970. 

She has a degree, master’s and PhD in Economics from Coimbra University Faculty of Economics. She has been a lecturer at Coimbra University Faculty of Economics since 1995, where she has lectured on several subjects, including Introduction to Economics, Microeconomics I, Regional Economics, European Economics, Introduction to Management, Seminar on Innovation Management, and others. She collaborates on a regular basis with other Faculties at Coimbra University. 

She was Minister of Territorial Cohesion in António Costa’s 2nd Government.

She was Chair of the Central Regional Coordination and Development Committee (CCDRC) from May 2014 to October 2019. Chair of the Steering Committee of the Central Regional Operational Programme since May 2014. Chair of the Investment Committee for the Financial Instrument for Urban Rehabilitation and Renewal (IFRRU 2020) since June 2016. She was Chair of the General Board of the Debt & Guarantee Fund of the Financial Development Institution (IFD) from July 2017 to December 2018.

She is Chair of the General Board of the IFD Capital & Quasi-Capital Funds since January 2019. She is Chair of the EUROACE Labour Community (Centre, Alentejo and Extremadura) and the Euroregion since 2018. She was executive board member of the Steering Committee of the Central Regional Operational Programme - Mais Centro – from February 2010 to May 2014.

She was Vice-Chair of the Central Regional Coordination and Development Committee and was charged with Regional Development, Legal Counsel and Administrative and Financial Management from 2008 to 2010.

She began her career path at Ernst & Young, in auditing, where she worked from July 1994 to October 1995.

She was a researcher at the Social Studies Centre of Coimbra University Faculty of Economics. She published several articles in national and international reviews and books, essentially on regional development and innovation management and economics.