Catarina Vaz Pinto (born 15 June 1960) is a Portuguese politician. She is the councillor of culture for the City of

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and previously was the State Secretary of Culture and Deputy Minister of Culture in the

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. Born in

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, Vaz Pinto holds a law degree from the

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and a postgraduate degree in European Studies from the

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. She previously served as the Executive Coordinator of the Gulbenkian Programme for Creativity and Artistic Creation/Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and as a consultant for Quaternaire in the area of cultural projects and policy. She was executive director and lecturer in the postgraduate degree in Cultural Management for Cities at the Institute for Business Management Development and co-founder/chief executive of Fórum Dança Cultural Association. In 2016, she received the insignia of the Order of Arts and Letters from the

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. Vaz Pinto currently serves as patron of the Women's International Forum. She is married to

António Guterres António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres (born 30 April 1949) is a Portuguese politician and diplomat who is serving as the ninth and current secretary-general of the United Nations since 2017. A member of the Socialist Party (Portugal), ...

, former

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who currently serves as

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