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Following his resignation, and given the proximity of elections, the prime-minister decided to give Pinho's portfolio to [[Fernando Teixeira dos Santos]], the Finance Minister.<ref name=Resignation>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/portugal/5732401/Portuguese-minister-resigns-after-making-cuckold-gesture-to-opposition-MP.html|title=Portuguese minister resigns after making cuckold gesture to opposition MP |publisher=''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''|date=3 July 2009|accessdate=20 August 2010}}</ref> A group of workers of the Aljustrel Mines made a public statement to express their gratitude for Pinho's support,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sol.sapo.pt/PaginaInicial/Economia/Interior.aspx?content_id=142681|title=Mineiros de Aljustrel defendem Manuel Pinho em abaixo-assinado |publisher=''[[Sol (newspaper)|Sol]]''|language=Portuguese|date=21 July 2009|accessdate=20 August 2010}}</ref> and one year after his resignation, the new Mayor of Aljustrel named the town municipal park after Pinho.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}}
Following his resignation, and given the proximity of elections, the prime-minister decided to give Pinho's portfolio to [[Fernando Teixeira dos Santos]], the Finance Minister.<ref name=Resignation>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/portugal/5732401/Portuguese-minister-resigns-after-making-cuckold-gesture-to-opposition-MP.html|title=Portuguese minister resigns after making cuckold gesture to opposition MP |publisher=''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''|date=3 July 2009|accessdate=20 August 2010}}</ref> A group of workers of the Aljustrel Mines made a public statement to express their gratitude for Pinho's support,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sol.sapo.pt/PaginaInicial/Economia/Interior.aspx?content_id=142681|title=Mineiros de Aljustrel defendem Manuel Pinho em abaixo-assinado |publisher=''[[Sol (newspaper)|Sol]]''|language=Portuguese|date=21 July 2009|accessdate=20 August 2010}}</ref> and one year after his resignation, the new Mayor of Aljustrel named the town municipal park after Pinho.{{Citation needed|date=http://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/economia/detalhe/manuel_pinho_eacute_nome_de_avenida_em_paccedilos_de_ferreira.htmlAugust 2010}}


Pinho has also been a senior fellow of the Jackson Institute, Yale University and director of the [[ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute|Lisbon University Institute]]'s energy MBA,.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theenergymba.ibs.iscte.pt/content.asp?idCont=3|title=The Energy MBA |publisher=[[ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute]]|accessdate=20 August 2010}}</ref> He was also a guest professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University, Vice Chairman of BES Africa, and a senior international adviser to Roland Berger Strategy Consultants.
Pinho has also been a senior fellow of the Jackson Institute, Yale University and director of the [[ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute|Lisbon University Institute]]'s energy MBA,.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theenergymba.ibs.iscte.pt/content.asp?idCont=3|title=The Energy MBA |publisher=[[ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute]]|accessdate=20 August 2010}}</ref> He was also a guest professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University, Vice Chairman of BES Africa, and a senior international adviser to Roland Berger Strategy Consultants.

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Manuel Pinho
Minister of Economy and Innovation
In office
14 March 2005 – 2 July 2009
PresidentJorge Sampaio
Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Prime MinisterJosé Sócrates
Preceded byÁlvaro Barreto (as Minister of Economy)
Graça Carvalho (as Minister of Innovation)
Succeeded byFernando Teixeira dos Santos
Personal details
Born (1954-10-28) 28 October 1954 (age 69)
Lisbon, Portugal
Political partyIndependent
SpouseAlexandra Pinho
Alma materTechnical University of Lisbon
Paris West University Nanterre La Défense
ProfessionEconomist
Professor

Manuel António Gomes de Almeida de Pinho (born Lisbon, Campo Grande, 28 October 1954) is a Portuguese economist, former politician and strong supporter of renewable energies.[1] He is currently a professor at Columbia University in New York City and Georgetown in Washington DC and a Visiting professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University. He was a senior fellow at Yale´s Jackson Institute for International Affairs and was awarded de John Wiley Eminent Fellowship by the University of Queensland.[2]

Early life and financial career

Pinho was born in Lisbon and graduated from the Technical University of Lisbon in 1975.[3] He completed his doctoral degree in economics at Université Paris X Nanterre in 1982.[3] After receiving his doctorate, he was appointed as a professor at the Technical University of Lisbon and the Catholic University of Portugal;[3] he has also been a visiting scholar at the New York University Stern School of Business.[4] He left academia to work as an economist at the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. from 1984-1988.[4]

Pinho held several political appointments in the early 1990s and is credited with the reform of Portugal's public debt market.[citation needed] He had a seat on the Portuguese Economic and Social Council, and served as the director-general of the Treasury and chairman of the public credit board.[4] He was also chairman of the advisory board of the Stock Exchange Commission[5] and chairman of the audit committee of Caixa Geral de Depósitos.[4] He was also a director of the European Investment Bank and represented Portugal on the monetary committee of the European Union.[4] He left these positions in 1994 to follow a career in banking.[4] He was a director of Banco Espírito Santo, and held positions at several of its subsidiaries, between 1994 and 2005.[4]

Political career

After a career in international institutions, at Treasury and in banking, he entered politics as top candidate of the Socialist Party list for district of Aveiro in the 2005 elections.[6] His term in parliament was very short, as he was nominated as Minister of Economy and Innovation by the new prime-minister José Sócrates, office which he occupied from 2005 until his resignation in July 2009.[7] As Minister, Pinho was responsible for the energy policy that saw Portugal become a leader in renewable energy.[8] Pinho was an architect of the European Union's Strategic Energy Technology Plan, a blueprint for European development of low-carbon energy production.[9] In 2007 he chaired the EU Council of Competitiveness Ministers[10] and the Transatlantic Economic Council.[11] His name was given to an Avenue in the Northern city of Paços de Ferreira. [12]

Controversial resignation

On July 2 2009, Manuel Pinho resigned as minister following an outburst in the Portuguese Parliament during the State of the Nation debate when he held his index fingers to his temples and mimicked a bull’s horns in a cuckolding gesture directed at a communist parliamentarian who heckled Pinho for personally delivering a 5,000 euros cheque from EDP-Energias de Portugal to the local football team during a visit to the town of Aljustrel, which had long been a stronghold of the Portuguese Communist Party.[13] Facing outcries of disrespectful conduct, Pinho resigned two hours later[14] and went on national TV that same night to explain himself saying: "naturally I am sorry. I am an educated person."[15]

The TV footage of the cuckolding gesture[16] immediately went viral making Manuel Pinho the subject of worldwide press coverage[17] and countless Internet memes[18] showing him self-applying horns to his own head.

After politics

Following his resignation, and given the proximity of elections, the prime-minister decided to give Pinho's portfolio to Fernando Teixeira dos Santos, the Finance Minister.[19] A group of workers of the Aljustrel Mines made a public statement to express their gratitude for Pinho's support,[20] and one year after his resignation, the new Mayor of Aljustrel named the town municipal park after Pinho.[citation needed]

Pinho has also been a senior fellow of the Jackson Institute, Yale University and director of the Lisbon University Institute's energy MBA,.[21] He was also a guest professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University, Vice Chairman of BES Africa, and a senior international adviser to Roland Berger Strategy Consultants.

Personal life

Manuel Pinho is the father of three children from his 20-year first marriage to fashion entrepreneur Paula Serra that ended in divorce in the early 2000s. He immediately remarried another divorcee Alexandra Fonseca (subsequently Alexandra Pinho) who worked with him at Banco Espírito Santo in Lisbon.

In an extensive 2006 interview about his personal life,[22] Manuel Pinho publicly acknowledged that he was an avid collector of photography and revealed that "when he returned from America" (presumably in the late 1980s) he had a near-death auto accident that has since limited his mobility.

Manuel Pinho's Lisbon residence is in a luxury condominium he built on the site of a demolished historic building where Portuguese romantic-period writer Almeida Garrett had lived in the mid-19th century.[23]

References

  1. ^ "Wild and free in Portugal (2)". www.chinadialogue.net. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
  2. ^ "School of Economics - The University of Queensland, Australia". economics.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
  3. ^ a b c "Portal do Governo - Manuel Pinho". portais.gov.pt. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "OECD - Manuel Pinho" (PDF). Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
  5. ^ "Manuel Pinho" (PDF). energy-conference.org. Retrieved 20 August 2010.
  6. ^ "Eleição para a Assembleia da República – 20 Fevereiro 2005 listas de candidatos" (PDF) (in Portuguese). parlamento.pt. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
  7. ^ "PINHO, Manuel António Gomes de Almeida" (in Portuguese). Instituto de História Contemporãnea. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
  8. ^ "Staking all on a renewable future". BBC News. 22 February 2008. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
  9. ^ Manuel Pinho (2008). "Europe's new energy era" (PDF). Ministry of Economy and Innovation. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
  10. ^ "Manuel Pinho chairs the Competitiveness Council that adopts important conclusions on determinant competitiveness policies and, particularly, on SME policies". eu2007.pt. 26 November 2007. Retrieved 20 August 2010.
  11. ^ "VP Verheugen chairs first meeting of Transatlantic Economic Council on 9th November". europa.eu. 8 November 2007. Retrieved 20 August 2010.
  12. ^ "Manuel Pinho é nome de avenida em Paços de Ferreira". www.jornaldenegocios.pt. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
  13. ^ Template:Pt icon [1] (Jornal de Negócios) (2 July 2009)
  14. ^ Template:Pt icon [2] [Diário de Notícias] (3 July 2009)
  15. ^ Template:Pt icon [3] (Jornal de Negócios) (2 July 2009)
  16. ^ [4] [YouTube] (2 July 2009)
  17. ^ Template:Pt icon [5] [Diário de Notícias] (3 July 2009)
  18. ^ Template:Pt icon [6] [Jornal de Notícias] (3 July 2009)
  19. ^ "Portuguese minister resigns after making cuckold gesture to opposition MP". The Daily Telegraph. 3 July 2009. Retrieved 20 August 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  20. ^ "Mineiros de Aljustrel defendem Manuel Pinho em abaixo-assinado" (in Portuguese). Sol. 21 July 2009. Retrieved 20 August 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  21. ^ "The Energy MBA". ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute. Retrieved 20 August 2010.
  22. ^ Template:Pt icon [7] (Jornal de Negócios) (credited to Jornal de Negócios, 2006)
  23. ^ Template:Pt icon [8] Público (6 January 2006)

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