Maria João Rodrigues
Maria João Rodrigues, former Portuguese Minister of Employment in Portugal of PM Antonio Guterres, is a European policy maker with a large track in different European institutions: special advisor to EU Presidencies, Council, European Council, European Commission and also member of the European Parliament where she was Vice-President of S&D Group.
She played a relevant role in several important European initiatives as: the Lisbon Treaty, the Lisbon and Europe 2020 strategy (the EU’s development agenda), the Eurozone reform, the interface in sustainable development with EU strategic partners US, China, Brazil, India and Africa. More recently, the European Pillar of Social Rights, the plans to respond to the COVID crisis, the roadmap for EU’s future, EU inputs for UN reform and the UN Pact for the future.
She is currently the Chair of the Board of the Think-Tank Re-imagine Europa, locate in Brussels and working closely with the EU institutions. She is member of the Club fo Rome for foresight and also of the Internetional Advisory Council of the T20/G20. She was President of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), a European political foundation.
In academic terms, she is full professor of economic emeritus in the Lisbon Univertsity Institute and she is assessor of the Oxford University Europaeum Phd Programme. She was also the chair of the European Commission Advisory Board for Socio-economic Research. She is author of more than one hundred publications and delivered more than one thousand key-note speeches across Europe and other continents.
