Elisa Maria da Costa Guimarães Ferreira, GCC is a Portuguese politician and economist who has been serving as European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms in the administration of President Ursula von der Leyen since 2019. She previously served as vice-governor of the Bank of Portugal from 2016 until 2019. She was as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Socialist Party; part of the Party of European Socialists between 2004 and 2016. In 2019, she was selected by Portugal to serve as a European Commissioner.
Previously, she was in charge of the Ministries of Environment (1995-1999) and Public Works (1999-2001) during the governments of António Guterres.
Ferreira in 2023
The von der Leyen Commission is the current European Commission, in office since 1 December 2019 and is to last until the 2024 elections. It has Ursula von der Leyen as its president and it further consists of one commissioner from each of the member states of the European Union.
The College of Commissioners in 2021
Image: Official Portrait of Ursula von der Leyen (cropped)
Image: Informal meeting of Energy and Transport Ministers (TTE). Energy Ministers press conference (36950060020) (cropped)
Image: (Margrethe Vestager) Hearings of Margrethe Vestager DK, vice president designate for a Europe fit for the digital age (48865071413) (cropped)