José Manuel de Medeiros Ferreira (20 February 1942 – 18 March 2014)[1] was a Portuguese politician, historian, and political scientist.
In the 1960s, he participated in student protests and opposition activities, which led to his expulsion from the university with a ban on studying in Portugal.
He eventually completed his studies at the University of Geneva in 1972 and obtained a doctorate in political and institutional history from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 1991.
From 1972 to 1974, he taught at the University of Geneva and later became a professor at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, specializing in contemporary history and international relations.
In the same year, he joined the Democratic Renewal Party and returned to the Assembly of the Republic for its fourth term.