JOSE SOCRATES, DEPUTY MINISTER TO PRIME MINISTER OF PORTUGAL, ELECTED PRESIDENT OF WORLD CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUTH
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JOSE SOCRATES, DEPUTY MINISTER TO PRIME MINISTER OF PORTUGAL, ELECTED PRESIDENT OF WORLD CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUTH
19980810 (Received from a United Nations Information Officer.)LISBON, 8 August -- Jose Socrates, Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister of Portugal, has been elected President of the first World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth, currently being held in Lisbon.
Mr. Socrates was Deputy Secretary of State to the Minister of the Environment from 1995 to 1997, and served as spokesperson on environmental affairs for the Socialist Party from 1991 to 1995.
He was a member of the Portuguese Parliament from 1987 until 1995, representing the Castelo Branco electoral district, about 150 miles north-east of Lisbon. While serving as the Chairperson of the Castelo Branco Federation of the Socialist Party (1983-1996), he was elected to the Party's National Secretariat in 1991. From 1989 to 1996, he served as a member of the Covilha Municipal Assembly.
Mr. Socrates has a degree in civil engineering, and has served as an engineer for the Covilha City Council, north-east of Lisbon.
Born in 1957, Mr. Socrates is married and has two children.
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