Maria do Céu Antunes

Maria do Céu Antunes
Antunes in 2023
Minister of Agriculture and Food
In office
26 October 2019  2 April 2024
Prime MinisterAntónio Costa
Preceded byLuís Capoulas Santos
Succeeded byJosé Manuel Fernandes
Secretary of State for Regional Development
In office
18 February 2019  26 October 2019
Prime MinisterAntónio Costa
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byCarlos Miguel
Mayor of Abrantes
In office
11 October 2009  17 February 2019
Preceded byNelson de Carvalho
Succeeded byManuel Jorge Valamatos
Personal details
Born
Maria do Céu de Oliveira Antunes

(1970-07-10) July 10, 1970
Abrantes, Portugal
Political partySocialist Party
Children2
Alma materUniversity of Coimbra

Maria do Céu de Oliveira Antunes (born 10 July 1970), previously known as Maria do Céu Albuquerque, is a Portuguese politician who served as the Minister of Agriculture from 2019 to 2024.

She has a degree in biochemistry from the Faculty of Sciences and Technologies of the University of Coimbra and has a postgraduate degree in Quality Management and Food Safety from the Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Egas Moniz. In January 2022, she was elected to the Assembly of the Republic on the list of the victorious Socialist Party (PS), as a representative of Santarém, and was reappointed as Minister of Agriculture and Food.

Before that, she had been Secretary of State for Regional Development in the XXI Constitutional Government of February 18 to October 26, 2019, and President of the Municipality of Abrantes for 9 years.