page_title: Miguel Frasquilho
section_title: Politics
hierarchical_section_title: Miguel Frasquilho / Politics
caption_attribution_description: English: Miguel Frasquilho (Chairman of TAP Air Portugal), George Papandreou (former Prime Minister of Greece), and Helder Antunes; Web Summit 2016, Lisbon.
context_page_description: Miguel Reis Antunes Frasquilho is a Portuguese economist, politician, and executive, currently serving as Chairman of the Board of TAP Air Portugal, Portugal's flag carrier airline. He also serves on the Olympic Committee of Portugal.
  A member of the Social Democratic Party, Frasquilho served in the Portuguese Parliament for 13 years, where he was Vice-President of the PSD Parliamentary Group. He also served as Secretary of State of the Treasury and Finances from 2002 to 2003, in José Manuel Barroso's short-lived government prior to becoming president of the EU Commission. He was the President and CEO of AICEP Portugal Global, the Portuguese Government's Trade & Investment Agency, from 2014 to 2017.
context_section_description: Frasquilho started his political career as Advisor to the State Secretary of Trade from 1993 to 1995 in the XII Government. In 1996 he joined Banco Espírito Santo, where he served as Coordinating Director of Espírito Santo Research.
  He is a member of the Social Democratic Party and was first elected to Portuguese Parliament in 2002, in the IX Legislature of the Third Portuguese Republic (2002-2005). He held his position as a deputy in Parliament in the following X (2005-2009), XI (2009-2011), and XII (2011-2015) Legislatures.
  Frasquilho entered the XV Constitutional Government, as Secretary of State for Treasury and Finance, from 2002-2003.
  He returned to the Portuguese Parliament where he was President of the Parliamentary Commission for Public Works, Transport and Communications between March 2005 and October 2008.
  Frasquilho was also part of the Commission for Corporate Income Tax reform, that took place between January and July 2013.
caption: Frasquilho with former Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou (center) and Helder Antunes (right), Silicon Valley executive; Lisbon Web Summit, 2016.
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