José Manuel Barroso
Portuguese politician (born 1956)
- Fame64.5
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- Portugal rank#39
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- Momentum5.1
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- Politicians rank#208
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Born 1956 · age 70Portugal
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Updated 2026-06-21
A decade shaping Brussels policy, then straight through the revolving door to Goldman Sachs — two months past his cooling-off period.
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José Manuel Durão Barroso was born 23 March 1956, a law professor who entered Portuguese politics and served as prime minister from 2002 to 2004. He moved to Brussels that year as president of the European Commission, a post he held until 2014. Two months after his mandatory cooling-off period ended, he took a chair at Goldman Sachs International as senior adviser and non-executive chairman. The move triggered an ethics inquiry and became one of the EU's most widely covered revolving-door cases.
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