Sandra Ribeiro

President, Portuguese Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality – under the coordination of the Secretary of State of Citizenship and Equality / Presidency of the Council of Ministers

Sandra Isabel Faria Ribeiro, graduated in law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, post-graduated in labour law and in legal draft techniques, both from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. She is President of the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality (CIG) since October 2020. Previously she was General Director in the Directorate-General for Employment and Professional Relations, between 2018 and 2020. And before that she was President of the Portuguese Commission for Equality in Labour and Employment, between 2010 and 2014. She worked in International Working Groups in gender equality and was part of the Executive Board of the EQUINET Network, in 2014. She started her professional activity as a lawyer in the field of labour law.