Mário DAVID

DMASDelegation for relations with the Mashreq countries

CPDEConference of Delegation Chairs
AFETCommittee on Foreign Affairs
SEDESubcommittee on Security and Defence
DMEDDelegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean

INTACommittee on International Trade
DNATDelegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
DACPDelegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly

• National defence course assessor. General practitioner at the Civil Hospitals of Lisbon (1977-1980).
• Held the following posts in the European Parliament from 1989: Deputy Secretary-General of the ELDR Group (October 1990-July 1994); Secretary-General (until November 1996) and member of the Bureau of the ELDR Group; Secretary-General of the Parliamentary Group of the European People's Party (EPP), (April 1997 to July 1999); Special adviser on European Union enlargement, responsible for the task force for the 12 candidate countries, Russia and the Balkan countries (until April 2002).
• Head of the private office of five ministers in the Portuguese Government (1980 -1989); Political adviser to the Prime Minister on international affairs (April 2002 to July 2004); Coordinator in the private office of José Manuel Durão Barroso for his election as President of the European Commission. (June-July 2004).
• Member of the Assembly of the Republic (10th parliamentary term); member of the Committees on European Affairs (PSD coordinator); Defence and Foreign Affairs. Chair of the Portugal-Ukraine and Portugal-Russia Parliamentary Friendship Groups and Vice-Chair of the Portugal-China Parliamentary Friendship Group.
• Secretary of State for European Affairs in the 16th Constitutional Government.
• Vice-Chair of the EPP in the 2006-2009 term, responsible for neighbourhood policy; Vice-Chair of the Committee on International Relations of the Partido Social Democrata.
• Deputy Secretary-General of the Centrist Democrat International - CDI;
• Order of the Madara Horseman, First Officer, Bulgaria; Order of Merit, Ukraine; Faithful Service, Commander, Romania.