Vice-Governor Elisa Ferreira
Elisa Maria da Costa Guimarães Ferreira
Vice-Governor.
Degree in Economics - University of Porto (1977); Master’s degree and PhD - University of Reading (1981 and 1985) - recognized as equivalent to a PhD in Economics by the University of Porto (1986).
She was appointed Vice-Governor of Banco de Portugal in September 2017.
She was appointed Member of the Board of Directors of Banco de Portugal in June 2016.
Member of the European Parliament (2004-2016). Member of the Committee of Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) throughout the whole period, and coordinator (spokesperson) for the Socialists and Democrats Parliamentary Group for most of this period. Member of the First and Second Special Committees on Tax Rulings and Other Measures Similar in Nature or Effect (TAXE), of the Financial Assistance Working Group (to euro area countries), of the Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis and of the Special Committee on the policy challenges and budgetary resources for a sustainable European Union.
Rapporteur (coordinator) of the European Parliament’s position on various legislative proposals related to the financial system as well as on several economic, budgetary and tax policy matters. Rapporteur, inter alia, of the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing uniform rules and a uniform procedure for the resolution of credit institutions and certain investment firms in the framework of the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM) and a Single Resolution Fund (SRF) (2014), two regulations of the “Two Pack” and the “Six Pack” – Common provisions for monitoring and assessing draft budgetary plans and ensuring the correction of excessive deficit of the Member States in the euro area (2012), and Prevention and correction of macroeconomic imbalances (2011), on Tax Rulings and other measures similar in nature or effect (2015) and on Cross-border crisis management in the banking sector (2010).
Member of the Portuguese Parliament - Assembleia da República - (2002-2004), Minister for Planning in the 14th Constitutional Government (1999-2002) and Minister for the Environment in the 13th Constitutional Government (1995-1999).
Executive vice-president of the Associação Industrial Portuense (Porto industrial association) (1992-1994); Vice-President of the Comissão de Coordenação da Região Norte (north region coordination commission) (1989-1992), which she joined in 1979. Member of the Administration Board of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Statistics Portugal) - (1989-1992).
Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto - since 1977.
Grand Cross of the Military Order of Christ - 2005.
Date | Meeting / Event | Location |
6 May 2019 | Meeting with supervised entity | BdP Lisbon |
8 May 2019 | Meeting with supervised entity | BdP Lisbon |
9 May 2019 | Participation in a round-table discussion organised by AT Kearney | Lisbon |
9 May 2019 | Meeting with supervised entity | BdP Lisbon |
9 May 2019 | Meeting with supervised entity | BdP Lisbon |
9 May 2019 | Presentation to the media of the “Annual Report – Activities and Financial Statements 2018” | BdP Lisbon |
10 May 2019 | Meeting with supervised entity | BdP Lisbon |
10 May 2019 | Meeting with supervised entity | BdP Lisbon |
10 May 2019 | Management Committee of the Mutual Agricultural Credit Guarantee Fund | BdP Lisbon |
15 May 2019 | Meeting with supervised entity | BdP Lisbon |
16-17 May 2019 | ECB’s Supervisory Board | BdP Lisbon |
20 May 2019 | Meeting with supervised entity | BdP Lisbon |
21 May 2019 | Address at the “High level meeting for Europe on Banking Supervision”, co-organised by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), the Group of Banking Supervisors from Central and Eastern Europe (BSCEE) and the Financial Stability Institute (FSI) of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) | Vienna, Austria |
22 May 2019 | Meeting with supervised entity | BdP Lisbon |
23 May 2019 | Lunch with the Portuguese Banking Association | BdP Lisbon |
24 May 2019 | Meeting with supervised entity | BdP Lisbon |
27 May 2019 | Participation in a meeting at the Netherlands embassy | Lisbon |
30-31 May 2019 | Participation in the OECD sessions of the 14th Trento Festival of Economics on “Globalisation, Nationalism and Representation” | Trento, Italy |
Date | Meeting / Event | Location |
3-5 April 2019 | Participation in the Eurofi High Level Seminar 2019 | Bucharest |
8 April 2019 | Meeting with supervised entity | BdP Lisbon |
10 April 2019 | Management Committee of the Mutual Agricultural Credit Guarantee Fund | BdP Lisbon |
16-17 April 2019 | Board of Supervisors of the European Banking Authority (EBA) | Banque de France, Paris |
25-26 April 2019 | Supervisory Board | ECB Frankfurt |
29 April 2019 | Meeting with supervised entity | BdP Lisbon |
Date | Meeting / Event | Location |
4 March 2019 | Working lunch with supervised entity | BdP Lisbon |
6 March 2019 | Meeting with supervised entity | BdP Lisbon |
8 March 2019 | Meeting with the Chief Economist of the OECD, Laurence Boone, current economic issues | BdP Lisbon |
11 March 2019 | Management Committee of the Mutual Agricultural Credit Guarantee Fund | BdP Porto |
13 March 2019 | National Council of Financial Supervisors (CNSF) | Lisbon |
14 March 2019 | Participation in the “Tenth annual EFR Stakeholder Round Table”, “Working together for open and competitive European financial markets” | Brussels |
15 March 2019 | Address at the Conference “Europe: the present and the future”, Público newspaper | Casa da Música Porto |
19-20 March 2019 | Supervisory Board and ECB’s Macroprudential Forum | ECB Frankfurt |
21 March 2019 | Meeting with supervised entity | BdP Lisbon |
22 March 2019 | Participation in the round table “Where does Europe go?”, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation | Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon |
25 March 2019 | Participation in the Joint Banco de Portugal and IMF conference on “Portugal: Reform and Growth Within the Euro Area” | BdP Lisbon |
25 March 2019 | Meeting with supervised entity | BdP Lisbon |
27 March 2019 | Banco de Portugal’s Advisory Board | BdP Lisbon |
28 March 2019 | Meeting with supervised entity | BdP Lisbon |
28 March 2019 | Participation in the debate “O futuro da moeda”, Portuguese Mint and Official Printing Office (INCM) | INCM Lisbon |
Date | Meeting / Event | Location |
4 February 2019 | Meeting with amember of the Government | Lisbon |
4 February 2019 | Participation in the 8th Conference of the Central Balance Sheet Database, “The buoyancy of the corporate sector” | BdP Lisbon |
8 February 2019 | Meeting with supervised entity | BdP Lisbon |
12 February 2019 | Meeting at the European Commission | Brussels |
14 February 2019 | Meeting at the Central Bank of Ireland, institutional issues | Dublin |
15 February 2019 | Management Committee of the Mutual Agricultural Credit Guarantee Fund | BdP Porto |
18 February 2019 | Meeting with supervised entity | BdP Lisbon |
18 February 2019 | Lunch with the Secretary-General of the OECD, Ángel Gurría, Economic Survey | BdP Lisbon |
21 February 2019 | Supervisory Board | ECB Frankfurt |
22 February 2019 | Meeting with supervised entity | BdP Lisbon |
22 February 2019 | Participation in the Conference of the Governor of Banque de France, François Villeroy de Galhau, “Challenges faced by the Eurosystem” | BdP Lisbon |
27 February 2019 | Meeting with supervised entity | BdP Lisbon |
27 February 2019 | Meeting with an investor’s representative | BdP Lisbon |
Date | Meeting / Event | Location |
10 January 2019 | Supervisory Board | ECB Frankfurt |
11 January 2019 | Meeting of the Management Committee of the Mutual Agricultural Credit Guarantee Fund | BdP Porto |
21 January 2019 | Joint BdP/EIB Conference - Investment, innovation and digitalization: the Portuguese case | BdP Lisbon |
22 January 2019 | Lunch with the National Council of Financial Supervisors | BdP Lisbon |
23 January 2019 | Opening address at the Restructuring, Liquidation and Insolvency Conference: “Sale of Non-Performing Loan Portfolios, Impact on the Economy”, organised by the Portuguese Economists' Association (Ordem dos Economistas) | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon |
25 January 2019 | Meetings with supervised entities | BdP Lisbon |
30 January 2019 | Meeting with supervised entity | BdP Lisbon |
31 January 2019 | Supervisory Board | ECB Frankfurt |