José Manuel Durão Barroso

Former, President of the European Commission

Is former President of the European Commission where he completed two mandates between 2004 and 2014. He’s a former Prime Minister of Portugal where he served and served for twelve years including in the positions of Minister of Foreign Affairs, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and Secretary of State for Home Affairs. His academic appointments include Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, Princeton University and the Graduate lnstitute for International Studies in Geneva. He is currently a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Portugal (Director of its Centre of European Studies) and at the European University Institute, School of Transnational Governance, Florence. He’s also nonresident scholar at Princeton University, where is a member of the Advisory Council of the Liechtenstein Institute. José Manuel Durão Barroso graduated in Law from the University of Lisbon and completed a Master’s degree in Political Science at the University of Geneva and other postgraduate degrees in European Studies. He is currently Chairman of International Advisors at Goldman Sachs and Chairman of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.