Carlos Moedas

Carlos Manuel Félix Moedas (born 10 August 1970) is a Portuguese civil engineer, economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), who is the current Mayor of Lisbon.

From 2014 until 2019, Moedas served as European Commissioner covering the portfolio of Research, Science and Innovation under the leadership of President Jean-Claude Juncker.

He then took postgraduate studies at Harvard Business School, graduating in 2000 with the degree of MBA,[5] after which he came back to Europe to work in mergers and acquisitions for Goldman Sachs.

[9] The day after entering Parliament, on 21 June 2011, the Prime Minister appointed him to his Cabinet in the XIX Constitutional Government as Secretary of State.

[11] In 2014, Pedro Passos Coelho, Prime Minister of Portugal, nominated him as European Commissioner,[12] and Moedas' name was approved by EC President-elect Jean-Claude Juncker on 1 September.