Sneha Girap (Editor)

Emília Pires

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
President
  
Taur Matan Ruak

Prime Minister
  
Xanana Gusmao


Nationality
  
Timorese

Name
  
Emilia Pires

Emilia Pires

Alma mater
  
Latrobe University University of Melbourne London School of Economics

Emilia pires on conflict development


Emília Pires was Timor-Leste's Minister of Finance since April 2007 until 16 February 2015. Ms. Pires was sworn in as the Minister of Finance of the V Constitutional Government of Timor-Leste on August 8, 2012 under the leadership of Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao.

Contents

Emília Pires Graft case rocks East Timor39s Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao

In July 2012, Ms. Pires was appointed by the Secretary-General of United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, to the 26-member High-level Panel of Eminent Persons advising the United Nations on the post 2015 global development agenda.

Emília Pires httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Tempo semanal video taur hau mak primeiru ministru emilia pires hau duni sai


Early life

Emília Pires Kazu Emilia Pires TDD Seidauk Simu Rekursu STL Online

In 1975, as a teenager, Emilia Pires left Timor-Leste (then Portuguese Timor) for Australia as a refugee, with her parents, brothers and sisters. At the time, she and her family believed they would be able to return after only a few days. However, exile lasted for 24 years before Pires was able to return to Timor-Leste.

Emília Pires East Timor minister faces 39jobs for friends39 allegation ABC Radio

Pires began her professional career as a junior public servant in the Victorian Government in her early 20s. She then rose to senior management level.

Before becoming Minister of Finance, Ms. Pires held senior positions with:

Emília Pires The Post2015 Development Agenda a Conversation with Emilia Pires

  • World Bank, Senior Aid Management Specialist in West Bank and Gaza, where she advised both the Ministries of Finance and Planning of the Palestinian Authority and donors on aid coordination to the economic sector
  • United Nations, UNMISET’s Senior Advisor to the Timor-Leste Ministry of Planning and Finance
  • UNTAET’s Head of the Planning Commission Secretariat as well as the Chief of the National Development and Planning Agency (NPDA), and
  • Chief of the National Development and Planning Agency (NPDA).

    • Minister of Finance (2007-current)

    Some of Pires' main achievements are:

  • Timor-Leste Transparency Portal was launched in early 2011, enabling the public to search, evaluate and analyse State expenditures in real time. The reforms helped lead to the reduction by 19 countries of the Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index
  • Emilia Pires was selected to be the first Chair of the g7+, the first forum of its kind giving fragile and conflict-affected countries a voice and place to share issues and ideas. Pires held the role until May 2014, when Minister Kaifala Marah of Sierra Leone took over.
  • Until June 2014, Pires co-chaired the International Dialogue of Peacebuilding and Statebuilding with Denmark and later with Finland, and
  • To improve service delivery, Pires corporatised the Ministry of Finance increasing decentralisation of some functions to line Ministries, like parts of the procurement process.

    • Emilia Pires led the planning process for the first Timorese National Development Plan and East Timor’s Vision 2020, as well as chairing the UNDP Working Group to produce the first East Timor National Human Development Report.

    Appointment to United Nations High-level Panel of Eminent Persons

    In July 2012, Pires was appointed by the Secretary-General of United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, to the 26-member High-level Panel of Eminent Persons advising the United Nations on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.

    The co-chairs of the Panel are the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the President of the Republic of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron.

    Publications

  • Co-authored "How will the Macroeconomy be Managed in an Independent East Timor? An East Timorese view" with Timor-Leste President of the Republic, H,E. Jose Ramos-Horta in 2001, published in the IMF’s Finance and Development Magazine.
  • Co-authored "National Ownership and International Trusteeship: the Case of Timor-Leste", with Mr. Michael Francino in 2007, published in Boyce James K. and Madalene O’Donnell (eds) in the Peace and the Public Purse: Economic Policies for Postwar Statebuilding.

    • Education

    Her educational qualifications include

  • a bachelor's degree majoring in Mathematics (Statistics) from La Trobe University
  • post graduate studies in Government Law from the University of Melbourne, and
  • a Masters of Science in Development Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK.

    • Julgamento de em lia pires ex ministra das finan as de timor leste


    References

    Emília Pires Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA