Emilia Pires
Emília Maria Valeria Pires ( born in 1961 (?) In Rairobo, Portuguese Timor ) is, since August 8, 2007 Minister of Planning and Finance of Timor-Leste in the government of Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão. Pires belongs to no party.
Life
Pires grew up on the land of the colony of Portuguese Timor. At the outbreak of the civil war in 1975 she was 14 years old. Her family was evacuated on board a Norwegian freighter to Australia. The following years the family lived in Melbourne. Pires received from the La Trobe University with a degree in mathematics and was then a PhD student of Constitutional Law in Melbourne. At 22, she was a civil servant with the Government of Victoria.
In 1999, the United Nations took over the administration of East Timor after 24 years of Indonesian occupation. Pires was prepared for the UN the Timorese National Development Plan. She then worked as a consultant to the World Bank in the Palestinian Authority. Simultaneously, she was able to complete her Masters at the London School of Economics 2004. Later, she became chief adviser to the Ministry of Finance UNMISET East Timor, head of Sekretäriats the Planning Commission of UNTAET and head of the National Development and Planning Agency. Before she became finance minister in 2007, she held the position of UNMIT Senior Coordination Advisor on the International Compact to the DSRSG in East Timor.
Over several months in 2009 raised the opposition party FRETILIN allegations of corruption against the government and in particular against Finance Minister Pires. Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão and Pires reported this back. There were no documents that occupied such a suspicion. Pires explained that it only give those corruption that had arisen under the previous government of FRETILIN. Parliament secured then an anti - corruption commission. The CAC investigated since allegations of corruption in administration and politics.
Since April 2010, Pires is chairman of the g7plus countries. In May, she fell into the public criticism. A representative of FRETILIN leaving in a speech to the Parliament an e -mail from Pires, in which, during the turmoil in East Timor in 2006, wrote to a friend in Australia, Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri if more remain in power, it would be better for East Timor if it were to be integrated in Australia. FRETILIN now sees this as proof that Pires wants to sell the land.
2011 appointed Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão Pires to his representative, while he is on a business trip abroad from 1 to 11 March. The real Deputy Prime Minister José Luís Guterres was accused at the time of corruption, but later acquitted in a trial. In early September were allegations of corruption against loud Pires. The prosecutor's office began an investigation. According to the allegations, the Mac's Metalcraft Pty Ltd. , Which belongs to the husband of Pires, various Furnishings has delivered to the Hospital Nacional Guido Valadares. The instruction to purchase should be done by Pires.
Pires and Gusmão founded on March 15, 2011, the Timor-Leste Budget Transparency Portal, which provides an overview of government spending, promote transparency and to reduce corruption.
After the parliamentary elections in 2012 Pires was again sworn in on August 8, as Minister of Finance of the government of Xanana Gusmão.
Family
Emília is the oldest of five siblings. Alfredo Pires 's Minister of Natural Resources. Aurora Pires is a nun and taught in a Catholic school. Palmira Pires performs a non-profit education agency. Fernando Pires works for an international aid organization. The father's name was Alfredo Manuel Pires and was for a time the district administrator of Bobonaro. Emilia's husband Warren Macleod lives in Melbourne. The two have been married since April 21, 2007.