Ana Abrunhosa

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Pereira and the second or paternal family name is Abrunhosa.

Her Excellency Ana Abrunhosa
Abrunhosa in 2020
Minister for Territorial Cohesion
In office 26 October 2019 – 2 April 2024
Prime Minister	António Costa
Preceded by	Luís Marques Guedes (as Minister of the Presidency and Regional Development)
Succeeded by	Manuel Castro Almeida (as Minister in the Cabinet of the Prime Minister and for Territorial Cohesion)
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
Incumbent
Assumed office 26 March 2024
Constituency	Coimbra
Member of the Mêda Municipal Assembly
In office 29 September 2013 – May 2014
Personal details
Born	Ana Maria Pereira Abrunhosa (1970-07-04) 4 July 1970 Portuguese Angola
Political party	Socialist Party (2019–present)
Other political affiliations	Social Democratic Party (2013–2014)
Spouse(s)	Luís Borrego (div.) António Trigueiros de Aragão
Children	2
Alma mater	University of Coimbra

Ana Maria Pereira Abrunhosa Trigueiros de Aragão (born 4 July 1970) is a Portuguese economist and politician who served as Minister for Territorial Cohesion from October 2019 to March 2024, when she was elected to the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal as a member of the Socialist Party (PS), representing the Coimbra constituency.

Early life and career

Abrunhosa has a doctorate in economics from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, and has taught several subjects there since 1995, such as microeconomics, regional economics, and European economics. She was also a researcher at the university's Centre for Social Studies.

Political career

Politically unaffiliated, Abrunhosa had held public offices dealing with regional development and innovation management under both António Costa's centre-left government (Socialist Party) and the preceding Pedro Passos Coelho centre-right government (PSD). Before becoming Minister, among other positions, she was President of the Centro Regional Coordination and Development Commission (2014–2019) — which, notably, coincided with the devastating June 2017 Portugal wildfires —, President of the management board of the Centro Regional Operational Programme (2014–2019), President of the Investment Committee of the Urban Instrument for Rehabilitation and Revitalisation (2016–2019), President of the General Council of the Debt & Guarantees Fund of the Financial Development Institution (2017–2018) and of the General Council of the Capital & Quasi-Capital Fund (2019), and President of the EuroACE Working Community and Euroregion (2018–2019).

Abrunhosa has expressed a wish to run for Mayor of Coimbra as an independent in the future.

Personal life

Abrunhosa's second and current husband is António Trigueiros de Aragão, CEO of Fábricas Lusitana, a Portuguese food manufacturer, famous for the production of Branca de Neve flour. Her husband is a claimant to the title of 7th Count of Idanha-a-Nova.