Organisation

The Camões, I.P. bodies are:

Board of directors
Auditor
Advisory Council for the Portuguese Language and Culture
Inter-ministerial Commission for Co-operation

At the highest management level, Camões, I.P. has a board of directors and an auditor (supervisory body).

The board of directors has under its direct jurisdiction three organisational units: the Office of Evaluation and Audit, the Documentation and Communication Office and the Office of Cultural Programmes and Agreements.

At the middle management level, there are three organisational units: Co-operation, Language and Culture, and Planning and Management.

Board of Directors - Vice-President

Vice-President of the Board

Cristina Moniz

Cristina Moniz holds a Degree in Modern Languages and Literature from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon. She was admitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) via the admission competition initiated in 1994. Embassy Attaché at the MFA (1995); Third-Secretary of Embassy (1998). Posted at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York (1999). Second-Secretary of Embassy (2000). Posted at the Portuguese Embassy to Namibia (2002). First-Secretary of Embassy (2003). Posted at the Embassy to South Africa (2004). Head of Division at the Department for International Economic Organizations of the Directorate-General for Technical and Economic Affairs (2008). Counsellor of Embassy (2010); Head of the Department for the Administration of Assets of the General-Department for Administration (2011). Head of the Department for Assets and Expedient, of the same General-Department (2012). Posted at the Embassy to Mozambique (2012). Posted at the Permanent Representation of Portugal to the European Union, in Brussels (2012).

Vice-President of the Board of Governors of Camões, I.P., since the August 12, 2020.

Member of the Board of Directors

Paula Pedro Loureiro

Member of the Board of Auditors since January 2018. In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2001, with a career in public governance, specially focused in budget control, held the position Director for Planning and Budget Control from 2012 until January 2018. Born in Lisboa, holds a degree in Economics and post-graduation in European Studies and in International Relations.

Member of the Board of Directors

Manuel Caldeirinha

Graduated in Law, from the University of Coimbra, in 1983. Appointed senior technician at the Ministry of Agriculture, in 1985. Entered the diplomatic career in June 1987, as an embassy attaché, having taken up duties at the Portuguese Embassy in Brussels, in June 1991, at the Portuguese Embassy in Athens, in January 1994, and at the Portuguese Embassy in Bonn, in August 1994. Appointed head of division in the Directorate of Security and Disarmament Services, in 1998. Appointed head of division and, subsequently, director of services at the Economic Affairs Office, in 1999. Assigned to the Permanent Mission of Portugal to NATO, in Brussels, in February 2002, and, in February 2007, to the Delegation of Portugal to the OECD, first as deputy permanent representative, and then, in May 2011, as chargé d'affaires a.i. Returned to the Central Services of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in August 2012, having been an auditor of the National Defense Course in the 2013-2014 biennium. Took up duties at the Portuguese Embassy in Riga, as chargé d'affaires a.i., in January 2015, and as diplomatic advisor to the President of the Assembly of the Republic from February 2017 to March 2022. Member of the Board of Directors of Camões, I.P. since March 2022.

Secretariat

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Camões Head Office

Advisor to the Board

Maria Inês Castelo Branco

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Advisory bodies

Inter-ministerial Commission for Co-operation

Mission

The Inter-ministerial Commission for Co-operation (CIC) is a sectorial body for government support in the area of development co-operarion policy, working together with Camões, I.P..

Duties

The CIC’s main responsibilities are to:

Provide support to the government in defining co-operative policies with developing countries;
Promote the specific planning of programmes and projects of public development aid;
Implement the activities of the various ministries regarding co-operation and public development aid, with a view to establishing concerted guidelines and strengthening the co-ordination and coherence of development policies;
Promote and co-ordinate the execution of publicly-driven co-operative programmes;
Promote the collation and sharing of information and statistical data among its members relating to the implementation of co-operation activity.

Advisory Council for the Portuguese Language and Culture

The Advisory Council is the official body for consultation, support and participation in the definition of the general performance of Camões, I.P., meeting at least once a year according to its internal regulations.

The Advisory Council consists of:

The President of Camões, I.P. who presides over its affairs, along with the vice president and board members;
A representative from each member of government responsible for the areas of foreign affairs, the economy, education, higher education, science and technology, culture, youth and the media;
The director-general of foreign policy, the director-general of European affairs , the director-general of consular affairs and Portuguese communities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
Five people of a recognised level of expertise in the fields of education, research, the arts and science;
By a representative of each of the teaching staff unions, incorporating the trade union confederations represented in the permanent commission for social dialogue.

Roles

The Advisory Council is responsible for:

Expressing its opinion on the activity plan and report of Camões, I.P., in the area of the Portuguese language and culture;
Providing an opinion on training plans relating to the teaching of Portuguese overseas;
Providing an opinion on the planning relating to the Portuguese teaching network abroad;
Providing an opinion on the setting up of Portuguese cultural centers and the co-ordination structures of the Portuguese teaching abroad;
Providing an opinion, on its own initiative or at the request of the President, on initiatives relevant to Camões, I.P’s roles regarding the Portuguese language and culture;
Interfacing Camões, I.P. with governmental bodies and public services with which the Institute is involved in order to fulfil its duties in the area of the Portuguese language and culture.