Luís Amado

Infobox Minister
name = Luís Amado


office = Minister of Foreign Affairs
predecessor = Diogo Freitas do Amaral
successor =
term_start = July 3 2006
term_end =
office2 = Minister of Defence
predecessor2 = Paulo Portas
successor2 = Nuno Severiano Teixeira
term_start2 = 2005-03-12
term_end2 = 2006-07-03
office3 = Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Co-operation
predecessor3 =
successor3 =
term_start3 = 1999-10-28
term_end3 = 2002-04-06
office4 = Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Co-operation
predecessor4 =
successor4 =
term_start4 = 1997-11-27
term_end4 = 1999-10-25
office5 = Secretary of State Assistant to the Minister for Internal Administration
predecessor5 =
successor5 =
term_start5 = 1995-10-30
term_end5 = 1997-11-25
primeminister = José Sócrates
primeminister2 = José Sócrates
primeminister3 = António Guterres
primeminister4 = António Guterres
primeminister5 = António Guterres
party = Socialist
residence =
salary =
spouse =
nationality = flagicon|Portugal Portuguese
religion=
children =
website =
footnotes =
birthdate = birth date and age|1953|9|17

Luís Filipe Marques Amado (born September 17 1953) is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portugal in the government led by the Socialist Party. Before replacing Diogo Freitas do Amaral as Minister of Foreign Affairs on June 30 2006, Amado was the Minister of Defence. He accepted the EU presidency for Portugal, on June 30, 2007.

Personal life

Luís Amado graduated in economics at the Technical University of Lisbon. He is also advisor to the Portuguese National Defence Institute and Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. He is married and has two children. He lived most of his life in Madeira Islands, where he was a representative in the Regional Assembly.

Governmental Duties

* Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, in the XIII Government. (1995-1997)

* Deputy Secretary of State of Internal Administration, in the XIII Government. (1997-1999)

* Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, in the XIV Government. (1999-2002)

* Minister of Defence, in the XVII Government. (2005-2006)

* Minister of State and Foreign Affairs, in the XVII Government. (2006-present)

External links

* [http://www.portugal.gov.pt/Portal/EN/Governos/Governos_Constitucionais/GC17/Composicao/Perfil/LuisFilipeMarquesAmado.htm Biography on Portugal.gov.pt]