The Authorities dissolved the board of administrators of the Portuguese Funding and Overseas Commerce Company (AICEP), led by Filipe Santos Costa, who had been in workplace for nearly a yr. The choice was justified as a result of want to provide a brand new imaginative and prescient and motivation to the entity in accordance with the goals of the Govt’s program.
In a press release issued on the finish of the day, the Ministry of Economic system signifies that it appointed the economist Ricardo Arroja to move the funding company. Aicep’s government committee may even encompass Madalena Oliveira e Silva, Joana Gaspar, Francisco Catalão and Paulo Rios de Oliveira.
These 5 names shall be submitted to Cresap to start a brand new three-year time period. In line with the assertion, this new board of administrators shall be “centered on the technique to help exporters, internationalize and entice funding, nationally and internationally”. Subsequently the Authorities needs to “improve financial diplomacy, strengthen hyperlinks between the company and Portuguese embassies, the community of chambers of commerce and business in Portugal and the Diaspora Council”.
Ricardo Arroja is visiting professor on the College of Minho, having held positions in firm administration and supervision. He additionally has consulting expertise in company finance and banking, having offered recommendation to organizations such because the OECD and the Worldwide Labor Group on public coverage. He additionally labored as a columnist.
The CV be aware distributed to the brand new directors exhibits that Madalena Oliveira e Silva is a member of Aicep and that she turned the administrator of the company between April 2017 and June 2023, in the course of the administration of Castro Henriques. Joana Gaspar has been a diplomat since 1997, and has held numerous positions together with the Portuguese Embassy in Paris and deputy Director Common of Overseas Coverage. Till now, she was the coordinator of the strategic examine and evaluation heart on the Diplomatic Institute of the Ministry of Overseas Affairs.
Former PSD chief Paulo Rios de Oliveira is one other identify. Along with being a consultant within the earlier legislature, he’s a lawyer and guide within the fields of administration and communication. Rios de Oliveira was a consultant between 2011 and 2023, after being coordinator of the economic system fee and vp of the PSD parliamentary group for the economic system.
Francisco Catalão, PhD in administration and grasp in Finance, has expertise in monetary features and in a number of firms. He was a monetary management technician at IGCP and advisor to the Secretary of State for Well being within the Durão Barroso Authorities and has been a college professor since 2013. He was at present director of treasury at Novabase.
The assertion doesn’t clarify the authorized framework that was the premise for the earlier termination of Aicep’s board of administrators, however the managers had been days away from finishing a yr in workplace. Aicep is an EPE (public enterprise entity) ruled by the statute of the general public supervisor. And if the managers who changed them now had the job for greater than 12 months, they’d be entitled to pay compensation comparable to the fundamental wage they’d obtain till the tip of the mandate, with a restrict of 12 months.
The present board of administrators of AICEP took workplace on June 5, 2023, appointed by the previous Minister of Economic system, António Costa Silva. Filipe Santos Costa was president of the administration, members Cristina Pucarinho, Luís Rebelo de Sousa (nephew of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa), João Noronha Leal and Isabel Tenreiro. Of this record, three names (together with the president) are footage of Aicep himself.
The Authorities says that “it’s sure that the appointment of a brand new president and new directors will convey new dynamics to Aicep. As offered within the Authorities program, the goal is to strengthen Aicep’s function in supporting the internationalization technique and attracting nationwide and overseas funding”.
Filipe Santos Costa was at a convention subsequent Monday on the challenges of the power transition organized by E-Redes, the place he insisted that AICEP has main funding initiatives “in the best way that inexperienced power is required and that planning is required higher relying on distribution networks. on the enterprise location areas”.
The present Minister of Economic system, Pedro Reis, was president of AICEP, from 2011 to 2014.