Augusto Santos Silva

Augusto Santos Silva


Minister of Foreign Affairs
Incumbent
Assumed office 26 November 2015
Prime Minister	António Costa
Preceded by	Rui Machete
Minister of National Defence
In office 26 October 2009 – 21 June 2011
Prime Minister	José Sócrates
Preceded by	Nuno Severiano Teixeira
Succeeded by	José Pedro Aguiar Branco
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
In office 12 March 2005 – 26 October 2009
Prime Minister	José Sócrates
Preceded by	Rui Gomes da Silva
Succeeded by	Jorge Lacão
Minister of Culture
In office 3 July 2001 – 6 April 2002
Prime Minister	António Guterres
Preceded by	José Sasportes
Succeeded by	Pedro Roseta
Minister of Education
In office 14 September 2000 – 3 July 2001
Prime Minister	António Guterres
Preceded by	Guilherme d'Oliveira Martins
Succeeded by	Júlio Pedrosa
Personal details
Born	(1956-08-20) August 20, 1956 Porto
Political party	Socialist Party
Alma mater	University of Porto (B.A.) (1978) ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon (Ph.D.) (1992)
Profession	University professor

Augusto Ernesto dos Santos Silva (born 20 August 1956) is the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs and a university professor.

Biography

Silva was born on August 20, 1956, in the port city of Porto. He graduated from the University of Porto with a degree in history in 1978 and later obtained a doctorate in sociology from ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon in 1992.

Academic career

Silva started his career as an economics professor in Porto beginning in 1981. Eventually, he worked his way up to Chair of the Scientific Council and served as Dean of the University of Porto from 1998 to 1999.

Silva also served on the National Board of Education from 1996 to 1999, the Commission on Social Security from 1996 to 1998 and the Board of Directors of the José Fontana Foundation from 2002 to 2005, which is affiliated with the Socialist Party. He also represented Portugal in the Council of Europe's Education for Democratic Citizenship project from 1997 to 1999.

Political career

Silva started his political activity while at university, serving as a member of the Porto committee of the Workers' Revolutionary Union, a Trotskyist group aligned with the Internationalist Communist League. In the 1976 presidential election, he supported Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, and in the 1980 election, he supported António Ramalho Eanes. Silva also joined the Movement of Socialist Left, aligning himself with politicians such as Alberto Martins, Arnaldo Fleming, and Jorge Ribeiro Strecht. In the 1986 election, he was a supporter of Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo in the first round, followed by Mário Soares in the second.^[1]

Five years later, Silva officially joined the Socialist Party. He was first elected to the Assembly of the Republic in the 1995 elections, where he has served continually ever since.

Silva has served in a number of ministerial roles, beginning in 2000 when he was appointed Minister of Education in the government of Prime Minister António Guterres, which he served as until 2001. At that time, he was appointed Minister of Culture, serving for a year in that role.

From 2005 to 2009, Silva was the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and the Minister of Defense from 2009 to 2011, both in the governments of Prime Minister José Sócrates. Since the beginning of 2015, he has been serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs.^[2]^[3]

Other activities

Silva is also an author, his two most recent works being Os valores da esquerda democrática: vinte teses oferecidas ao escrutínio público ("The values of the democratic Left: twenty propositions for public scrutiny" - 2010), and A sociologia e o debate público: estudos sobre a relação entre conhecer e agir ("Sociology and public debate: studies on the relation between knowing and acting" - 2006). Additionally, he has served as a columnist for the Jornal de Notícias, Público, and TVI 24.

Awards

Grand Cross of the Italian Order of Merit (April 1, 2002)^[4]

Works

Oliveira Martins e o socialismo : ensaio de leitura crítica. Porto : Afrontamento, 1979.
Teoria e metodologia das ciências sociais : uma análise crítica das contribuições de Durkheim e Max Weber. Porto, 1984.
Metodologia das ciências sociais. Com José Madureira Pinto. Porto : Afrontamento, 1986.^[5]
Formar a nação : vias culturais do progresso segundo intelectuais portugueses do século XIX. Porto : BEC, 1987.
Consumos de artesanato : resultados de um inquérito. Com Helena Santos. Porto : Centro Regional de Artes Tradicionais, 1988.
Projecto para a promoção sociocultural : Centro Regional de Artes Tradicionais. Porto : Centro Regional de Artes Tradicionais, 1988.
Entre a razão e o sentido : Durkheim, Weber e a teoria das ciências sociais. Porto : Afrontamento, 1988.^[6]
Novos artesãos portugueses : quem são, o que fazem?. Porto : Centro Regional de Artes Tradicionais, 1989.
Educação de adultos : educação para o desenvolvimento. Porto : Asa, 1990.^[7]
Tempos cruzados : um estudo interpretativo da cultura popular. Porto : Afrontamento, 1994.^[8]
Prática e representação das culturas : um inquérito na área metropolitana do Porto. Com Helena Santos. Porto : Centro Regional de Artes Tradicionais, 1995.
Avaliação do sistema das escolas profissionais. Coordenação de Júlio Montalvão e Silva. Colaboração de Augusto Santos Silva e José Manuel Prostes da Fonseca. Lisboa : Ministério da Educação, 1996.
Palavras para um país : estudos incompletos sobre o século XIX português. Oeiras : Celta, 1997.
Educação para a cidadania democrática : algumas iniciativas em curso na área de Lisboa : projecto. Coordenação e projecto de Augusto Santos Silva. Lisboa : Ministério da Educação, Gabinete de Assuntos Europeus e Relações Internacionais, 1998.
Parte devida : intervenções públicas, 1992-1998. Porto : Afrontamento, 1999.
A educação artística e a promoção das artes, na perspectiva das políticas públicas : relatório do Grupo de Contacto entre os Ministérios da Educação e da Cultura. Coordenador. Lisboa : Ministério da Educação, 2000.
A educação para a cidadania no sistema educativo português : 1974-1999. Com Carla Cibele Figueiredo. Lisboa : Ministério da Educação, 2000.
Cultura e desenvolvimento : estudos sobre a Relação entre Ser e Agir. Oeiras : Celta, 2000.
Por uma política de ideias em educação. Porto : Asa, 2002.
Projecto e circunstância : culturas urbanas em Portugal. Organização de Carlos Fortuna e Augusto Santos Silva. Direção de Boaventura de Sousa Santos. Porto : Afrontamento, 2002.
A sociologia e o debate público : estudos sobre a relação entre conhecer e agir. Porto : Afrontamento, 2006.
Os valores da esquerda democrática : vinte teses oferecidas ao escrutínio crítico. Coimbra : Almedina e Fundação Res Publica, 2010.
Os porquês da esperança : ideias a favor do futuro em Portugal. Com Paulo Magalhães. Lisboa : Matéria-Prima, 2015.^[9]

References

↑ Carvalho, Manuel (12 June 2015). "O "príncipe" que nenhum líder do PS ousou dispensar". Publico (in Portuguese). Retrieved 25 June 2016.
↑ Meireles, Luisa (24 November 2015). "Ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros: Santos Silva, um homem polivalente". Expresso (in Portuguese). Retrieved 25 June 2016.
↑ Borga, Marcos (11 November 2015). "PS, Bloco e PCP. A "geringonça" anda ou não anda?". Expresso (in Portuguese). Retrieved 25 June 2016.
↑ "CIDADÃOS NACIONAIS AGRACIADOS COM ORDENS ESTRANGEIRAS". Ordens Honorificas Portuguesas (in Portuguese). Retrieved 25 June 2016.
↑ Diversas edições.
↑ Várias edições.
↑ Tem 2.ª edição.
↑ Tese de doutoramento em Sociologia apresentada ao Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e Empresa.
↑ A fonte das obras publicadas é a PORBASE.

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Preceded by Guilherme d'Oliveira Martins	Minister of Education 2000-2001	Succeeded by Júlio Pedrosa
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21st Constitutional Government of Portugal

Prime Minister

António Costa

Ministers

Foreign Affairs	Augusto Santos Silva (2015–)

Presidency and Administrative Modernisation	Maria Manuel Leitão Marques (2015–)

Finance	Mário Centeno (2015–)

National Defence	José Alberto Azeredo Lopes (2015–)

Internal Administration	Constança Urbano de Sousa (2015–)

Justice	Francisca Van Dunem (2015–)

Adjunct Minister	Eduardo Cabrita (2015–)

Culture	João Soares (2015–2016) • Luís Filipe Castro Mendes (2016–)

Science, Technology and Higher Education	Manuel Heitor (2015–)

Education	Tiago Brandão Rodrigues (2015–)

Labour, Solidarity and Social Security	José António Vieira da Silva (2015–)

Health	Adalberto Campos Fernandes (2015–)

Planning and Infrastructure	Pedro Marques (2015–)

Economy	Manuel Caldeira Cabral (2015–)

Environment	João Pedro Matos Fernandes (2015–)

Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development	Luís Capoulas Santos (2015–)

Sea	Ana Paula Vitorino (2015–)

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