# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mario-centeno
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:15:43.206Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mario-centeno"
name: "Mário Centeno"
slug: "mario-centeno"
description: "Mário José Gomes de Freitas Centeno is a Portuguese economist, university professor, and politician. From 2015 to 2020, he was Minister of Finance of Portugal in the government cabinet of Prime Minister António Costa of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS). He was the president of the Eurogroup and chairman of the board of Governors of the European Stability Mechanism from 2018 to 2020. Previously, he was a board member economist of the Bank of Portugal. On 9 June 2020, he announced his resignation from the Ministry of Finance, effective 15 June. On 16 July 2020, the Council of Ministers approved Centeno's nomination for the post of Governor of the Bank of Portugal, put forward by his successor as Finance minister, João Leão. Centeno is the author or co-author of several scientific publications, books and book chapters related to his areas of interest, such as labour economics, econometrics, microeconomics and contract theory."
tagline: "Portuguese economist and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/M%C3%A1rio_Centeno_1.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "PT"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1966-12-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  218
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump