Henrique Medina Carreira (14 December 1930 – 3 July 2017)[1] was a Portuguese jurist and financial expert who served as Minister of Finance from 1976 to 1978.

[2] Medina Carreira was born in Bissau, in what was then the Portuguese overseas territory of Guinea, in 1931.

Medina Carreira went to Lisbon where he studied at the Pupilos do Exército military school and obtained a degree in mechanical engineering which in turn allowed him to work at Companhia União Fabril conglomerate's steelworks.

After the Carnation Revolution, in 1975, Pinheiro de Azevedo called him to the Sixth Provisional Government as Undersecretary of State for the Budget, a position he left shortly afterwards to take over the functions of the Minister of Finance in the I Constitutional Government of Portugal.

He worked extensively as a lawyer, business consultant and university professor, and became well known due to the commentaries and opinions he posted in the Portuguese media, such as in the SIC Notícias show Plano Inclinado, warning about the risk of collapse of the Portuguese public finances – an event that would happen in 2011 in the 2010-2012 Portuguese financial crisis.