Jorge Moreira da Silva

Jorge Moreira da Silva GOIH
Moreira da Silva in 2023
Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 April 2023
Secretary-General	António Guterres
Preceded by	Grete Faremo
Director of the Development Co-operation Directorate
In office 1 November 2016 – 14 April 2022
Secretary-General	José Ángel Gurría
Preceded by	Jon Lomay
Succeeded by	Pilar Garrido Gonzalo
Minister of the Environment, Territorial Planning and Energy
In office 24 July 2013 – 26 November 2015
Prime Minister	Pedro Passos Coelho
Preceded by	Assunção Cristas
Succeeded by	João Pedro Matos Fernandes
Secretary of State Assistant to the Minister of the Environment and Spatial Planning
In office 21 July 2004 – 12 March 2005
Prime Minister	Pedro Santana Lopes
Preceded by	Hermínia Cabral (Regional Development) Paulo Pereira Coelho (Local Administration) Artur da Rosa Pires (Environment and Spatial Planning)
Succeeded by	Humberto Rosa (Environment) João Ferrão (Spatial Planning and Cities) Rui Baleiras (Regional Development)
Secretary of State Assistant to the Minister of Science and Higher Education
In office 6 October 2003 – 17 July 2004
Prime Minister	José Manuel Barroso
Preceded by	José Pinto Paixão
Succeeded by	Pedro Sampaio Nunes
President of the Social Democratic Youth
In office December 1995 – September 1998
Preceded by	Pedro Passos Coelho
Succeeded by	Pedro Duarte
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
In office 23 October 2015 – 31 October 2016
Constituency	Braga
In office 10 March 2005 – 14 October 2009
Constituency	Lisbon
In office 27 October 1995 – 19 July 1999
Constituency	Braga
Member of the European Parliament
In office 20 July 1999 – 5 October 2003
Constituency	Portugal
Personal details
Born	Jorge Manuel Lopes Moreira da Silva (1971-04-24) 24 April 1971 (age 53) Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal
Political party	Social Democratic Party
Alma mater	University of Porto University of Navarra
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Engineer Consultant

Jorge Manuel Lopes Moreira da Silva GOIH (born 24 April 1971) is a Portuguese engineer and politician of the Social Democratic Party serving as the Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services, UNOPS, since 2023.

During his political career as an elected official, Moreira da Silva was member of the Portuguese Parliament and member of the European Parliament. Between 2003 and 2005 he was secretary of State for Science and Higher Education under Prime Minister José Manuel Durão Barroso and Secretary of State for the Environment and Territorial Planning under Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes. He went on to become minister of the Environment, Territorial Planning and Energy from 2013 to 2015 in the governments led by Pedro Passos Coelho. From 2016 to 2022 he was director of the Development Co-operation Directorate at OECD.^[1]

An international expert on development, climate change, carbon finance, energy, environment and humanitarian aid, Moreira da Silva has been a visiting professor on development, climate change, energy, environment, humanitarian aid, conflict and fragility and carbon markets at several Portuguese and international universities and institutions, namely Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas and Sciences Po. He was member of the European Commission's High-Level Group on Research, Innovation, and Science Policy (RISE) and was also a member of the advisory committee of CIRCLE (Climate Impact Research Coordination for a Larger Europe). He served as senior advisor to the President of the Portuguese Republic, consultant to the European Commission and to the European Investment Bank and Vice-President of GLOBE-Europe.^[2]