Francisco Gomes da Silva

TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COORDINATION

Degree in Agricultural Engineering with the specialty of Agrarian Economy and Rural Sociology, by the Higher Institute of Agronomy of the then Technical University of Lisbon (now the University of Lisbon) p>

Postgraduate in Business Sciences, by the Higher Institute of Labor and Enterprise Sciences (ISCTE)

Doctorate in Agronomy, by the Higher Institute of Agronomy of the then Technical University of Lisbon (now University of Lisbon), in 1998.

Currently assistant professor of the Higher Institute of Agronomy of the University of Lisbon, where he teaches, since 1987 (having suspended this function between 2013 and 2104, for the exercise of governmental functions), disciplines of the Agrarian Economy, Agricultural and Rural Development Policies, Organization and Management of the Company and Analysis and Planning of Projects.

Founding partner of AGROGES, a Society of Studies and Projects, which started its activity in 1989. There he initially worked as a technician and later as a project coordinator, with interruptions dictated by the conducting doctoral exams and performing a governmental function.

Secretary of State for Forestry and Rural Development of the XIX Constitutional Government between February 2013 and October 2014.

Personal representative of the Minister for Agriculture, the Sea, Environment and Spatial Planning of the XIX Constitutional Government at the Strategic Council for the Internationalization of the Economy, between July 2012 and January of this year. 2013

Advisor to the Cabinet of the Minister for Agriculture, the Sea, Environment and Spatial Planning of the XIX Constitutional Government between August 2011 and July 2012.

Member of the Board of Directors of Agromais Plus, between March 2008 and July 2011.

DAI Agricultural Director – Sociedade de Desenvolvimento Agroindustrial between 1999 and 2002, served between 2002 and 2007 as Advisor to the Board of Directors of the same company.

Member of the Board of Directors of Casa Agrícola Quinta da Foz – Sociedade Agropecuária between 2002 and 2007.

Administrator of the Agricultural Society of Faiel between 1995 and 1999.

He participated as a speaker in several conferences, congresses and seminars, both in Portugal and abroad, and published several technical and scientific articles and book chapters, mainly in the areas of Analysis and Planning of Projects, Water Economics and Agricultural Policy and Rural Development.

He also has experience in projects developed in Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde, acquired at the Higher Institute of Agronomy (Angola), AGROGES (Angola and Cape Verde) and DAI (Mozambique). ).