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Ana Vasconcelos Martins
Portuguese politician (born 1985) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ana Vasconcelos Martins (born 14 March 1985) is a Portuguese jurist, political scientist and politician of the Liberal Initiative who was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024[1].
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Personal life
Martins was born on Terceira Island[2] in 1985, has lived in Lisbon since the age of 7 and now divides her life between Lisbon and Brussels.[3]
Academia
Catholic University of Portugal
She studied law and political science at the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP) and was a research assistant and publications manager at UCP's Institute for Political Studies.[4][5]
University of Oxford
At the University of Oxford she read for the degree in Political Theory at St Anthony's College, with a particular interest in democratic checks on political power in the Digital Age. As a research associate of the Dahrendorf Programme at Oxford, she contributed to the Europe's Stories Project whose podcast she also managed and co-hosted. She was a Europaeum Scholar, researching perceptions of democratic participation and belonging in the European Union.[5]
Politics
Entry into Politics
She was the lead candidate of Liberal Initiative (IL), as an independent, for the Azores constituency in the 2019 legislative election.[4] After joining the party, Martins served as a vice president of IL between 2023 and 2025 on the team of Rui Rocha.[6] During this period she headed the party's Policy Research unit, the ILab.[7]
European Parliament
For the 2019 European Parliament election, she was an independent candidate in fourth place on the party's list.[8][9] In 2024 she was elected a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for IL as the second name in a list headed by the party's former leader João Cotrim Figueiredo.[9] As her party is a full member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), she caucuses with the Renew Europe parliamentary group.[10][11]
EP Committees and Delegations
Martins is a full member of the standing Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety as well as a member of the Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee and the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly.[12][13] Martins is also a member of the Panel for the Future of Science and Technology and is a substitute member of the standing Committee on Transport and Tourism.[13][14]
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