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Francisco Louçã
Louçã in 2021
Member of the Council of State
In office 12 January 2016 – 29 April 2022
Appointed by	Assembly of the Republic
President	Aníbal Cavaco Silva Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
Coordinator of the Left Bloc
In office 24 March 1999 – 10 November 2011
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Catarina Martins João Semedo
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
In office 25 October 1999 – 25 October 2012
Constituency	Lisbon
Personal details
Born	Francisco Anacleto Louçã (1956-11-12) 12 November 1956 (age 68) Lisbon, Portugal
Political party	Left Bloc (1999–present)
Other political affiliations	Internationalist Communist League (1973–1978) Revolutionary Socialist Party (1978–1999)
Children	1
Relatives	Vítor Gaspar (cousin)
Alma mater	Technical University of Lisbon
Profession	Economist, professor

Francisco Anacleto Louçã (Portuguese pronunciation: [fɾɐ̃ˈsiʃku loˈsɐ̃]; born 12 November 1956) is a Portuguese economist and politician.

Biography

He is the second son of António Seixas Louçã, a Portuguese Navy Officer, and his wife Noémia da Rocha Neves Anacleto, lawyer, granddaughter of António Neves Anacleto, from Silves, brother of Isabel Maria, António, João Carlos and Jorge Manuel, and cousin of Vítor Gaspar, former Minister of Finances at the right winged Pedro Passos Coelho's government.

Louçã was an active opponent of the pre-democracy regime. He was arrested for a protest against the colonial war in 1972, before the fall of the dictatorship, which lasted in Portugal for about forty years and finished with the Carnation Revolution, (25 April 1974). In 1999, after pursuing his academic career, he helped found the left-wing party Left Bloc (Portuguese: Bloco de Esquerda).

Career

He is a Full Professor of Economics in Lisbon's Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (Direct Translation - "Higher Institute of Economics and Management", officially in English - "Lisbon School of Economics and Management"), which belongs to the University of Lisbon (formerly Technical University of Lisbon) and was a member of the Portuguese Parliament from 1999 to 2012.

He is the author of several books and scientific articles on the history of economic thought, the dynamics of complex adaptive systems and the nature of long-term techno-economic change, including "Turbulence in Economics" (Elgar, 1997), "As Time Goes By" (with Christopher Freeman, Oxford University Press, 2011 and 2002, translated into Portuguese, Chinese), "The Years of High Econometrics" (Routledge, 2007) and a number of papers in scientific journals in economics, mathematical physics, history of economic ideas, mathematical modeling of financial markets, history of biology. His scientific books are translated into eleven languages. In 1999 he was awarded the prize for the best scientific paper of the year, "History of Economics Association".

Candidate in the Portuguese 2006 presidential elections, Louçã received 288,224 votes (5.31%).

Francisco Louçã is one of the five personalities elected by the Assembly of the Republic to the Council of State on 18 December 2015, and he took office on 12 January 2016, serving until 2022. He is also the first (and so far only) member of Left Bloc to accede to this body.

Electoral history

Legislative election, 1991

Lisbon City Council election, 1997

Legislative election, 1999

Legislative election, 2002

Legislative election, 2005

Presidential election, 2006

Legislative election, 2009

Legislative election, 2011

References

1. Interview by Mark Bergfeld at MRZINE, 13 May 2005
2. Raphael Minder, "Rising Left Bloc in Portugal Could Threaten Austerity Drive", The New York Times, 8 November 2015.
3. Raphael Minder, "Portugal’s Government Ousted in Challenge to Austerity", The New York Times, 10 November 2015.
4. "Portuguese MPs force minority government to quit over austerity"
5. Francisco Louçã, Texts at Ideas
6. Francisco Louçã, Articles
7. As Time Goes By: From the Industrial Revolutions to the Information Revolution – paper by Chris Freeman and Francisco Louçã at Oxford Scholarship
8. Francisco Louçã, Publications
9. Francisco Louçã, The Years of High Econometrics (A short history of the generation that reinvented economics) – paper, Routledge
10. "Resultados AR 1991" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
11. "Diário da República Mapa Oficial" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. 2 March 1998. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
12. "Há muito, muito tempo, era Lisboa outra cidade..." Público. 6 September 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
13. "Resultados AR 1999" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
14. "Resultados AR 2002" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
15. "Resultados AR 2005 Rectificação" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
16. "Resultados PR 2006" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
17. Diário da República Mapa Oficial (PDF), Comissão Nacional de Eleições, retrieved 10 October 2022
18. "Mapa Resultados AR 2011" (PDF). CNE. Retrieved 5 August 2024.

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Current members of the Council of State
President of the Republic	Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (President of the Council)
President of the Assembly of the Republic	José Pedro Aguiar-Branco
Prime Minister	Luís Montenegro
President of the Constitutional Court	João Caupers
Provider of Justice (Ombudsman)	Maria Lúcia Amaral
Presidents of the Regional Governments	José Manuel Bolieiro (Azores) Miguel Albuquerque (Madeira)
Former Presidents of the Republic	António Ramalho Eanes Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Appointed by the President	Lídia Jorge Luís Marques Mendes António Lobo Xavier Leonor Beleza
Elected by the Assembly	Carlos César Francisco Louçã Domingos Abrantes Francisco Pinto Balsemão Rui Rio

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