Jorge Barreto Xavier (born 6 November 1965) is a Portuguese cultural manager, university professor and politician.

It was the first integrated centre of artistic experimentation in Portugal and one of the largest in Europe (with the possibility to work in several fields: visual arts, dance, music, theatre, writing, video and intermedia projects).

In January 2003 he became Deputy Mayor of the Municipality of Oeiras, in charge of Culture, Youth and Consumer's Protection.

[5] On the Cultural area, he put into action the requalification project of Palácio Anjos, in Algés, to host the art collection Manuel Brito, one of the most important in the country.

[7][8] On that position, Jorge Barreto Xavier leads the reform of the State supports for the artistic activities and draws and implement the program "Inov-Art" [9] that would become, in 2009 and 2010, the biggest program of professional international internships in the Cultural field promoted by a public authority from the European Union, with more than 200 interns per year, allocated in dozens of cities from 28 countries of the five continents.