Nuno Severiano Teixeira
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His Excellency Nuno Severiano Teixeira GCIH ComIH |
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| Minister of National Defense | |
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In office July 3, 2006 – October 26, 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | José Sócrates |
| Preceded by | Luís Amado |
| Succeeded by | Augusto Santos Silva |
| Minister of Internal Administration | |
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In office 2000-09-14–2002-04-06 |
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| Prime Minister | António Guterres |
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November 5, 1957 Guinea-Bissau |
| Nationality |
 Portuguese
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| Political party | Socialist |
Henrique Nuno Pires Severiano Teixeira (born November 5, 1957, in Portuguese Guinea) is a Portuguese academic and politician. Severiano Teixeira is a Full Professor at New University of Lisbon, and he is also the Vice Rector of the same institution. He is Director of the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI), an academic research institute that belongs to NOVA University of Lisbon.
Nuno Severiano Teixeira was Minister of Internal Administration in the 14th Constitutional Government, the second of the Prime Minister António Guterres. He was also Minister of Defense in the 17th Constitutional Government, the first of the Prime Minister José Sócrates.
Severiano Teixeira is the author of several publications in the fields of Military History, International Relations, Security and Defense, and European Integration.
Nuno Severiano Teixeira was born in Portuguese Guinea, in 1957, when his father was serving in military mission. He is a descendant of Colonel José Manuel Severiano Teixeira, who was awarded Commander of the Order of Avis, in 1989.
Nuno Severiano Teixeira was also awarded. He received the Grade of Commander of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator, and also the Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator.
The former Minister graduated in History in 1981, from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, and holds a PhD in History of International Relations from the European University Institute, Florence, 1994. Nuno Severiano Teixeira has also the Habilitation degree in Political Science and International Affairs, from the New University of Lisbon.
Severiano Teixeira began teaching in the 1980s, as a Professor at the School of Social Sciences of the University of Évora, between 1982 and 1994. He also taught at the History Department of the Institute of Labor Science and Enterprise in Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL), between 2002 and 2006, and at the Portuguese Catholic University, between 1998 and 2013. He is currently Professor in the Department of Political Studies at NOVA University of Lisbon.
As a visiting Professor he taught at Georgetown University (2000), at the Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley (2003-2004), and at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute, in Florence (2010).
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