José Manuel Barroso

Portuguese politician (born 1956)

  • Fame64.5
  • Momentum5.1
  • Portugal rank#45
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Born 1956 · age 70Portugal

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    70
    Born 1956
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    My Way: The Rise and F…
    2016
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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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