Jose Manuel Barroso
Former EU Commission President & Prime Minister of Portugal | Chair of Gavi Vaccine Alliance
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José Manuel Barroso led the European Commission for a decade (2004-2014), steering the EU through the global financial crisis and eurozone debt emergency. Before Brussels, he served as Portugal's Prime Minister from 2002-2004.
Now Chair of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and Chair of Goldman Sachs International Advisors, Barroso brings rare expertise on global governance, transatlantic relations, and crisis management. His academic credentials include professorships at Georgetown and Lisbon, and he played a key role mediating Angola's peace accords in 1991.
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