Telmo Correia was born on 4 February 1960.
He has a Law degree from Lisbon University. Lawyer and university lecturer.
He was Minister of Tourism, Vice-President of Parliament, Chairman of the CDS-PP Parliamentary Group, Councillor in Lisbon town hall, municipal member of parliament, and Chairman of the Belém parish assembly.
A lawyer since 1990.
He was a university lecturer in the field of Corporate Law and taught Labour Law and Trade Law at the International University. He also taught the National Political System and Comparative Political Systems curricular units for the Political Science degree at Lusófona Humanities and Technologies University.
A member of Parliament from 1999 to 2022, he chaired the CDS-PP Parliamentary Group on three different occasions (2002-2005/2007/2020/2022).
In addition to being Vice-President of Parliament, he coordinated and was Vice-Chairman of the following Parliamentary Committees: Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees; Economy, Innovation and Public Works; Foreign Affairs and Portuguese Communities; Labour and Social Security; National Defence; and Constitutional Revision, among others.
Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where he joined the Monitoring and Legal Affairs Committees.
As member of Parliament, he was also Vice-Chairman of the friendship parliamentary groups: Portugal-France, Portugal-United States, and Portugal-United Kingdom, and Chairman of the friendship parliamentary groups: Portugal-Argentina and Portugal-Israel.
He was Minister of Tourism in 2004-2005.
In the context of Local Government, he was a councillor in Lisbon town hall from 1997-2001; municipal member of parliament and Chairman of the Belém parish assembly since 2017. He was also on the Oeiras municipality Strategic Advisory Committee.
He was a tv commentator on SIC-Notícias (Frente a Frente); and a sports commentator on TVI, Benfica TV, and SportTV, as well as on Radio Antena1. He wrote articles regularly for Novo Semanário and Capital, and published articles in several papers among which are Expresso, Público, and Diário de Notícias.