Mariano Gago

José Mariano Rebelo Pires Gago ( born May 16, 1948 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese engineer and politician. Gago served as minister of science already in various Portuguese governments, including two cabinets of Prime Minister Guterres (1995-2002 ). Since 2005 he has held the same office in the Cabinet I Sócrates.

Life

Mariano Gago graduated in Electrical Engineering at the Instituto Superior Técnico of the Technical University of Lisbon from the usual Lizenziatur ( licenciatura ). Then he ran numerous researches in the field of experimental physics of elementary particles at the École Polytechnique, where he also completed his habilitation. As a professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico, he taught already at the Geneva European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN ) and at the Laboratório de Lisbon Instrumentação e Física Experimental de particulas ( "Laboratory of Measurement Technology and Particle Physics "). Gago was also a member of CERN (1985-1990), the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (1986-1989) and from 1986 to 1989 president of the Portuguese Association for Science and Technology ( Junta Nacional de Investigação Científica e Tecnológica ), initiated in this he, among other things, the Portuguese program for Science ( Programa Ciência e Tecnologia em Mobilizador de Portugal) a. From July 1997 to June 1998 he was also the chair of the European EUREKA initiative.

His political career began after Prime Minister António Guterres appointed him to the Portuguese Parliament elections of 1995 as the new Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education. This department he headed in two sessions Guterres ', therefore, of 28 October 1995 to 25 October 1999 ( First Cabinet Guterres ) and 25 October 1999 to 6 April 2002 ( Second Cabinet Guterres ). In 1998 he founded the EUREKA Asia Initiative in Macao. During the Portuguese Presidency in 2000 he prepared jointly with the European Commission presented the eEurope initiative to promote e-government in the EU. He also initiated the program Ciência Viva ( Live Science ) to disseminate information technologies especially in Portugal in the culture and society.

After the Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates 2005 parliamentary elections Mariano Gago summoned again to Science Minister. In his most recent tenure Gago urged particularly to a stronger presence of the Portuguese authorities on the Internet. It also aims to be adjusted in accordance with European standards, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, university degrees to the Bologna process.

Although he belongs to no party, Gago applies the Portuguese Socialists particularly related parties.

Mariano Gago is also a member of the Board of the International Risk Council ( IRGC). He is also a member of the European Academy. Likewise, Gago has published numerous works, including Manifesto for Science in Portugal ( " para a Ciência em Portugal Manifesto " )

He is married and has one daughter.