Mário Centeno
Mário José Gomes de Freitas Centeno (born 9 December 1966) is a Portuguese economist, university professor, and politician. From 2015 to 2020, he was
Minister of Finance of Portugal in the government cabinet of Prime Minister
António Costa of the
Portuguese Socialist Party (PS). He was the president of the
Eurogroup and chairman of the board of Governors of the
European Stability Mechanism from 2018 to 2020. Previously, he was a
board member economist of the
Bank of Portugal. On 9 June 2020, he announced his resignation from the Ministry of Finance, effective 15 June. On 16 July 2020, the
Council of Ministers approved Centeno's nomination for the post of Governor of the
Bank of Portugal, put forward by his successor as Finance minister,
João Leão. Centeno is the author or co-author of several scientific publications, books and book chapters related to his areas of interest, such as
labour economics,
econometrics,
microeconomics and
contract theory.
Provided by Wikipedia