José Eduardo Martinho Garcia Leandro (born 1939) is a Portuguese lieutenant-general and former colonial administrator.
he is currently a member of the General Council of Universidade Aberta, professor at the Institute of Political Studies at the Catholic University of Portugal, curator and administrator of the Jorge Álvares Foundation and corresponding academic at the International Academy of Portuguese Culture.
[1] Leandro began his military career at the Colégio Militar in 1950.
Later, he had mobilized for various service commissions in Angola, Guinea, Timor and Macau.
[2] During his tenure, he drew up the Estatuto Orgânico de Macau,[3] an organic law which was later approved by Portuguese legislation on 17 February 1976, reclassified Macau as a "Chinese territory under Portuguese administration" (território chinês sob administração portuguesa).