Víctor da Conceição Soares
Víctor da Conceição Soares | |
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![]() Soares in 2020 | |
Assumed office 24 June 2020 | |
Prime Minister | Taur Matan Ruak |
Preceded by |
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Vice Minister for Technical and Higher Education | |
In office 10 July 2006 – 8 August 2007 | |
Prime Minister |
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Preceded by | Office created |
Succeeded by | Office abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | Baucau, Portuguese Timor (now East Timor) |
Political party | Fretilin |
Alma mater | |
Víctor da Conceição Soares is an East Timorese politician and academic, and a member of the Fretilin political party. He is the incumbent , serving since June 2020 under the VIII Constitutional Government of East Timor led by Taur Matan Ruak.
Early life and career[]
Soares is originally from Baucau, in eastern East Timor. In 1992, he obtained a bachelor's degree in mechanical production from Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia. In 1999, he was awarded an honours degree in mechanical engineering from , Indonesia, and in 2004, he completed a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan. Since then, he has obtained a PhD in technical science of territorial planning and environment from the University of Évora, Portugal, majoring in biosystems engineering and renewable energy-wind power.[1]
From 1999 to 2001, Soares served as a UN local staff member in East Timor, and was the Supervisor for UNAMET-UNTAET Security Services. Since 2000, he has been a lecturer in mechanical engineering at the National University of East Timor (UNTL), and has also been a researcher in mechanical engineering and renewable energy, including wind power.[1] From 2007 until 2010, he was Dean of the Faculty of Technical Engineering at UNTL.[1][2]
Political career[]
From 10 July 2006 to 8 August 2007, Soares was also Vice Minister for Technical and Higher Education in the II Constitutional Government under Prime Minister José Ramos-Horta,[3] and the III Constitutional Government led by Prime Minister Estanislau da Silva,[4] respectively.
Soares was later appointed as an advisor to the East Timor Coffee Academy (ETICA) (now the [5] From 2017 to 2020, he was a Member of UNTL General Council, and a Member of the Scientific Council of the National Institute for Science and Technology (Portuguese: Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia (INCT)).[1]
).On 24 June 2020, following a change in the governing coalition, and the admission of Fretilin to the VIII Constitutional Government, Soares was sworn in as Minister of Petroleum and Minerals.[6][7][8][9]
Soares took that office intending to undertake a restructuring of East Timor's oil and gas sector, with the objective of improving the quality of the services provided in that sector. Soon afterwards, as part of a new policy of limiting the time that any person would hold a position in public administration, he controversially replaced two long serving executives, Francisco Monteiro as the chief executive of [9] Additionally, the proposal for the Tasi Mane LNG project was sent to the national audit office for re-evaluation.[10]
, and Gualdino da Silva as the President of National Petroleum & Minerals Authority.Honours[]
In 2000, Soares was awarded a UN Certificate as a UNAMET Staff Member, and in 2013 he was decorated by the government of East Timor as a Combatant of National Liberation.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c d e "Profile of H.E. Minister of Petroleum and Minerals Victor da Conceição Soares, PhD". Ministry of Petroleum and Minerals. Archived from the original on 13 August 2021. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
- ^ "Estrutura da UNTL" [UNTL Structure]. UNTL (in Portuguese). Retrieved 15 December 2020.
- ^ "II Constitutional Government". Government of Timor-Leste. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
- ^ "III Constitutional Government". Government of Timor-Leste. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
- ^ "East Timor Coffee Academy (ETICA)". East Timor Coffee Academy blog. . 18 May 2011. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
- ^ "Swearing-In and organic structure of the Eight Constitutional Government". Government of Timor-Leste. 24 June 2020. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
- ^ "Structure of the VIII Constitutional Government". Government of Timor-Leste. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
- ^ "Timor-Leste's Eighth Constitutional Government (updated 17 July 2020)". La'o Hamutuk website. La'o Hamutuk: Timor-Leste Institute for Development Monitoring and Analysis. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
- ^ a b Soares, Víctor da Conceição (20 August 2020). "LETTER: Timor-Leste aims to reinvigorate its oil and gas sector". Upstream. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
- ^ McDonald, Hamish (5 October 2020). "Sun is setting on Timor-Leste's pipe dream". Asia Times. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
External links[]
Media related to Víctor da Conceição Soares at Wikimedia Commons
- Bandung Institute of Technology alumni
- Fretilin politicians
- Government ministers of East Timor
- Living people
- University of Évora alumni
- 21st-century politicians