A member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), she represented the Autonomous Region of Madeira in the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal between 2009 and 2011.

Vânia Andrea de Castro Jesus was born in Santa Cruz, Madeira on 17 January 1979.

In 2000, she obtained a degree from the Higher Institute of Business and Labour Sciences – ISCTE in Lisbon, in modern and contemporary history, specialising in cultural management.

After losing her seat in the national parliament she returned to the Madeira assembly, being re-elected in 2011 and 2015 and leaving in 2017.

[1][2][3] From 2017, Jesus was appointed as chair of the Board of Directors of the Madeira social housing company, Investimentos Habitacionais da Madeira, which had as its goal the construction, management and rehabilitation of housing for needy families.