Santina José Rodrigues Ferreira Viegas Cardoso (born 24 November 1975) is an

East Timor East Timor (), also known as Timor-Leste (), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is an island country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-west ...

ese politician and public administrator. She has served as the Minister for Finance since 2023 under Prime Minister

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and previously served in the position from 2015 and 2017 under the

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led by

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. Previously, between 2012 and 2015, she was the Vice Minister for Finance under the V Constitutional Government led by Xanana Gusmão.

Early life and career

Cardoso graduated in October 2000 from the in Kupang, Indonesia, with a degree in Economics specialising in Economic Sciences and Development Study. Immediately afterwards, she joined the Children Recovery and Resilience Program, a non-government organization for Timorese children. In 2001, Cardoso started working at the Constituent Assembly of East Timor in its Working Secretariat. At the end of that year, she entered the East Timor Public Administration (ETPA). When the

I Constitutional Government of East Timor The I Constitutional Government ( pt, I Governo Constitucional, tet, I Governu Konstitusionál) was the first Constitutional Government of East Timor, Constitutional Government (Administration (government), administration or Cabinet (government ...

took office in 2002, Cardoso moved to the National Directorate for Planning and External Assistance Coordination (NDPEAC) of then Ministry of Planning and Finance (MPF), as Programme Officer in the Planning & Monitoring Division. Upon the formation of the IV Constitutional Government in 2007, she was appointed Program Implementation Officer (PIO) of the Planning and Financial Management Capacity Building Project (PFMCBP). The PFMCBP was a 5-year multi-donor funded PFM project implemented by the Ministry of Finance and supervised by the World Bank. As PIO, Cardoso oversaw the implementation of the project. Subsequently, she was appointed as Director-General for Corporate Services in the Ministry of Finance.

Political career

On 8 August 2012, Cardoso was sworn in as Vice Minister of Finance in the V Constitutional Government. When that Constitutional Government was replaced by the VI Constitutional Government on 16 February 2015, she was promoted to the role of Minister of Finance. She vacated her Ministerial position on 15 September 2017, when the VII Constitutional Government took office. In June 2023, she was again appointed minister of finance under Prime Minister

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