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Aníbal Cavaco Silva

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Aníbal Cavaco Silva

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Also known as Cavaco Silva, Anibal Cavaco Silva

Portuguese politician (born 1939)

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Aníbal António Cavaco Silva (born 1939-07-15 in Boliqueime) is a Portuguese economist, politician, and university teacher. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he has served as both Prime Minister and President of Portugal. His academic career includes positions at NOVA University Lisbon and the Catholic University of Portugal, while his education was completed at the Technical University of Lisbon and the University of York.

Cavaco Silva is a Catholic who speaks Portuguese. He was a candidate in the 2006 and 2011 Portuguese presidential elections. Among his awards are the Order of the White Eagle, the Robert Schuman Medal, the Cross of Recognition, and the Order of the Liberator. He is married to Maria Cavaco Silva.

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Person · Open Library

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  • Anibal Cavaco Silva Autobiografia Politica I

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Brazil
Active from
1988-07-03
brazilian

Discography

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Total plays
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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,562x

  2. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,908x

  3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,988x

  4. The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship

    · 2016 · cited 14,659x

  5. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

    · 2016 · cited 11,706x

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Encyclopedic overview

Aníbal António Cavaco Silva GCC GColTE GColL GColIH ( European Portuguese: [ɐˈniβɐl ɐ̃ˈtɔni.u kɐˈvaku ˈsilvɐ, - ɐ̃ˈtɔnju -]; born 15 July 1939) is a Portuguese economist and politician who served as the president of Portugal from 2006 to 2016, and as prime minister of Portugal, from 1985 to 1995. His 10-year tenure was the longest of any prime minister since Salazar, and the longest for a freely elected prime minister in Portugal's republican history. He was the first Portuguese prime minister to win an absolute parliamentary majority under the current constitutional system (dating to 1974). He is most recognized for guiding Portugal into the European Union, liberalizing the Portuguese economy and improving infrastructures across the country.

Early life and career

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