Inês Domingos

Inês Carmelo Rosa Calado Lopes Domingos
Secretary of State for European Affairs of the Portuguese Government
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 April 2024
Preceded by	Tiago Antunes
Constituency	Viseu District
Member of Parliament of the Portuguese Assembly
In office 2015–2019
Personal details
Born	Inês Carmelo Rosa Calado Lopes (1977-05-12) 12 May 1977
Political party	Social Democratic Party
Spouse	Hugo Ferreira Mendes Domingos
Alma mater	UCLouvain
Occupation	Economist • politician

Inês Carmelo Rosa Calado Lopes Domingos (born 1977) is a Portuguese politician and economist. From March 2021 to March 2024, she was an economic advisor to the president of Portugal. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and in the March 2024 national election she was elected to the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic, having previously served in the Assembly between 2015 and 2019.

Early life and education

Domingos was born on 12 May 1977. She studied at the European School of Brussels, a school normally reserved for children of diplomats and EC officials, before moving to the Université Catholique de Louvain, where she completed a bachelor's degree in economics in 1999. In 2006 she obtained a master's in economics from the same university. She started to study for a PhD in international relations and political science at the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP) in 2017.

Career

Inês Domingos is the Secretary of State for European Affairs of the Portuguese Government since 5 april 2024. Domingos worked as an economist in the economic research departments of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs in London. Between 2009 and 2024 she was a teaching assistant at the Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics, the business school of UCP. Between 2021 and 2024 she worked as an economics advisor to Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the president of Portugal. She also wrote regular columns in Portuguese newspapers, notably the online Observador.

Political career

In the 2015 national election Domingos was elected to the National Assembly to represent the Viseu District as a member of the PSD, serving until 2019 and was reelected in 2024. She was not re-elected in the 2019 election nor in the 2022 election. In the 2024 election the PSD formed a coalition with two smaller parties to form the Democratic Alliance. The Alliance obtained three of the seats in the 8-seat Viseu constituency and Domingos was elected, being third on the Alliance's list. Domingos was the coordinator of the "Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Digitalization" committee of the PSD's National Strategy Council.

Personal life

Domingos is married to Hugo Ferreira Mendes Domingos.