Isabel Mota
Isabel Mota
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President of the Board of Trustees of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation since April 2017 Isabel Mota is Graduated in Finance from the University of Lisbon (1973).She is a non executive member of the board of Santander Totta Bank (since July 2015) and member of the Council of Portuguese Honorific Orders (Since 2011).A member of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Board of Trustees since 1999 she is also a member of the Partex Oil and Gas (Holdings) Corporation Supervisory Committee.She was Assistant Lecturer at the Higher Institute of Economics (1973 75) before becoming Deputy Director of the Office of the External Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Finance (1978 86) and Counsellor to the Permanent Representative of Portugal to Brussels (1986).In the political field Isabel Mota has served as Secretary of State for Planning and Regional Development in the 11th and 12th Constitutional Governments with responsibility for the negotiations with the European Union over Structural and Cohesion Funds for Portugal (1987 95). She serves on the Juries to the Jacques Delors Award the COTEC BPI Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award. Until 2014 she also served as Jury for the Career Award of the Catholic University of Lisbon.From 2010 until 2016 Isabel Mota was adviser to the Economic and Social Council Portugal is a member of the Specialist Committee of the Ministry of Regional Development (2013).Isabel Mota was distinguished with the award Dona Antonia Ferreira and recipient of the Distinguished Service Gold Medal from the Ministry of Health. She has also been awarded the levels of Grand Office and Grand Cross in the Order of Infante D. Henrique.