Economist Cristina Casalinho and engineer Jorge Vasconcelos were elected non-executive directors of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation board in Lisbon, the institution announced.
Cristina Casalinho was linked to the banking sector Y chaired the Treasury and Public Debt Management Agencysince 2014.
Jorge Vasconcelos, with engineering backgroundand the president of the company New Energy Solutions It is advisory council of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Sustainability.
The board of directors of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is chaired by Antonio M. Feijoelected to the position last December, replacing Isabel Mota.
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The board also includes executive directors Martin Essayan, José Neves Adelino, Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins and António Cruz Serra, and non-executive directors Graça Andresen Guimarães and Pedro Norton, who are now joined by Cristina Casalinho and Jorge Vasconcelos.
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is a non-profit institution created in 1956 with the estate of the Armenian patron Calouste Gulbenkian (1869-1955), whose main activities are carried out in four statutory areas: art, charity, education and science.
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It has a scientific research institute, its own orchestra, choir, library and art archive, concert halls and two art collections, one of ancient art and the other of contemporary art, exhibited to the public in its museums.
the gulbenkian grants scholarships and grants in various areas, in addition to prizesnamely, the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity, the María Teresa and Vasco Vilalva Prize, in the area of heritage recovery, and the Branquinho da Fonseca Prize for children’s and young people’s literature.
Source: Observadora
