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Manuel Pinho

Manuel Pinho
Minister of Economy and Innovation
In office
14 March 2005 – 2 July 2009
PresidentJorge Sampaio
Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Prime MinisterJosé Sócrates
Preceded byÁlvaro Barreto (as Minister of Economy)
Graça Carvalho (as Minister of Innovation)
Succeeded byFernando Teixeira dos Santos
Personal details
Born (1954-10-28) 28 October 1954 (age 69)
Lisbon, Portugal
Political partyIndependent
SpouseAlexandra Pinho
Alma materTechnical University of Lisbon
Paris West University Nanterre La Défense
ProfessionEconomist, professor

Manuel António Gomes de Almeida de Pinho (born 28 October 1954) is a former Portuguese Minister of Economy and Innovation (2005–09) in the José Sócrates cabinet, who subsequently became an energy policy academic (2010–17) under circumstances that led to indictments in Portugal in 2017[1] and 2019,[2] to house arrest since 2021,[3] and to multiple charges of passive corruption, tax fraud, and money laundering in 2022.[4] According to those charges, Pinho received, while in office, at least 4.5 million euros[5] in secret monthly offshore payments from his prior and subsequent boss Ricardo Espírito Santo Salgado whose Espírito Santo Financial Group benefited[2] from several of Pinho's decisions as minister.[6][7]

In 2010 Pinho was hired as an adjunct professor of International and Public Affairs by Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs[8] which coincided with a newly awarded Energias de Portugal (EDP) sponsorship[9] that originated suspicions of Pinho improperly benefiting, by at least 1.2 billion euros,[10] Portugal's EDP - Energias de Portugal electricity company in exchange for its sponsorship that Columbia University used to hire Pinho after he left government.[11] Pinho stopped lecturing at Columbia after a preliminarily indictment against him and top EDP managers in 2017, but as of January 2023 none of them has been formally charged in this regard. Since 2010 Pinho also lectured at other universities in the US, China and Australia.

He is also remembered in Portuguese popular culture for an outburst in 2009 in the Portuguese Parliament that forced his resignation and was reported by mainstream media worldwide.[12]

  1. ^ "Manuel Pinho está a ser ouvido pela PJ". Observador.
  2. ^ a b (in Portuguese) [1] [Jornal de Notícias] (27 June 2019),
  3. ^ "Portugal's Ex-Economy Minister Pinho Placed Under House Arrest". Bloomberg.com. 15 December 2021. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
  4. ^ "Caso EDP. Manuel Pinho e Ricardo Salgado acusados de corrupção". Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Portugal. 15 December 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  5. ^ (in Portuguese) [2] Expresso (Portugal) (11 September 2019)
  6. ^ "Manuel Pinho criou offshore quatro dias antes da nomeação". www.cmjornal.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 11 July 2023.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference observador.pt was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ "Columbia School of International and Public Affairs Faculty Directory: Manuel Pinho". Archived from the original on 26 June 2018.}
  9. ^ Rosa, Luís. "Universidade de Columbia. Manuel Pinho quis esconder patrocínio da EDP". Observador (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 11 July 2023.
  10. ^ ""Manuel Pinho terá causado um prejuízo de 1,2 mil milhões de euros aos portugueses"". Observador.
  11. ^ "PJ investiga patrocínio da EDP a curso ministrado por Manuel Pinho". Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Portugal. 2 June 2017. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  12. ^ Cabral, Eva (3 July 2009). "Demissão de Manuel Pinho marca Estado da Nação". Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 19 April 2018.

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