António José da Costa Silva (; born 23 November 1952) is a Portuguese professor, businessman and politician who served as Minister of the Economy and Maritime Affairs in the third cabinet of

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António Costa António Luís Santos da Costa (; born 17 July 1961) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician who has served as President of the European Council since 2024. He previously served as the 118th prime minister of Portugal from 2015 to 2024 and th ...

from 2022 to 2024.

Early life and education

Costa Silva studied Mining Engineering at

Technical University of Lisbon The Technical University of Lisbon (UTL; , ) was a Portuguese public university. It was created in 1930 in Lisbon, as a confederation of preexisting schools, and comprised the faculties and institutes of veterinary medicine; agricultural scienc ...

's Higher Technical Institute, going on to earn a master’s in Petroleum Engineering from

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and a PhD in Petrol Reserve Engineering from both his previous colleges.

Career

Costa Silva started working in Angola at

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in 1980 and from 1984 to 1997 he worked at Companhia Portuguesa de Serviços. He was Director of Reservoir Engineering and Production at Beicip-Franlab, the corporate branch of the French Petroleum Institute, in Paris from 2001 to 2003, Executive Director of the Compagnie Géneral de Geophysique in Portugal from 1998 to 2001 and CEO of

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from 2004 to 2021. Costa Silva is professor emeritus at the Higher Technical Institute, where he taught Planning and Integrated Management of Energy Resources. In 2020 he was tasked by

to draw up Portugal's

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economic recovery programme for the use of the European Union funds.

References

External links

Biography in the Portuguese Government site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Costa Silva, Antonio 1952 births Alumni of Imperial College London Government ministers of Portugal Living people Technical University of Lisbon alumni