Catarina Vaz Pinto
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Catarina Vaz Pinto | |
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| Born | 15 June 1960 |
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| Employer | City of Lisbon |
| Title | Councillor of Culture |
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Catarina Vaz Pinto (born 15 June 1960)[1] is a Portuguese politician. She is the councillor of culture for the City of Lisbon[2] and previously was the State Secretary of Culture and Deputy Minister of Culture in the Government of Portugal.[3]
Born in Goa,[4] Vaz Pinto holds a law degree from the Portuguese Catholic University and a postgraduate degree in European Studies from the College of Europe. She previously served as the Executive Coordinator of the Gulbenkian Programme for Creativity and Artistic Creation/Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and as a consultant for Quaternaire in the area of cultural projects and policy.[5] She was executive director and lecturer in the postgraduate degree in Cultural Management for Cities at the Institute for Business Management Development and co-founder/chief executive of Fórum Dança Cultural Association.[6] In 2016, she received the insignia of the Order of Arts and Letters from the Government of France.[7]
Vaz Pinto currently serves as patron of the Women's International Forum.[8]
She is married to António Guterres, former Prime Minister of Portugal who currently serves as Secretary-General of the United Nations.[9]
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