{{Short description|Portuguese politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = | party = [[Socialist Party (Portugal)|Socialist Party]] (since 2019) | image = Member of the European Parliament for Portugal Isabel Estrada Carvalhais.jpg | image_size = 220px | caption = Official portrait as an MEP, 2019 | constituency_MP = | term_start = | term_end = | parliament = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1973|2|28|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Negage]], [[Portuguese Angola]] | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = | relations = | children = | alma_mater = [[University of Warwick]] | occupation = [[Sociologist]] • [[Professor]] • [[Politician]] | profession = | website = | predecessor1 = [[André Bradford]] | office1 = [[Member of the European Parliament]]<br />for [[Portugal (European Parliament constituency)|Portugal]] | term_start1 = 3 September 2019 | term_end1 = 15 July 2024 }} '''Isabel Estrada Carvalhais''' (born 28 February 1973) is a Portuguese politician of the [[Socialist Party (Portugal)|Socialist Party]] who served as a [[Member of the European Parliament]] between [[2019 European Parliament election|2019]] and [[2024 European Parliament election|2024]].<ref>[https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/199996/ISABEL_CARVALHAIS/home Isabel Carvalhais] [[European Parliament]].</ref>
==Academic career== From 2000 to 2003, Carvalhais obtained her doctorate in [[sociology]] at the [[University of Warwick]], before returning to Portugal. In 2010 she became director of the Research Centre for Political Science and International Relations at the [[University of Minho]]. From 2012 she was head of the BA course in political science, and from 2018 she had a professorship in political science and international relations at the same university.<ref>[http://www.cicp.eeg.uminho.pt/_isabel_estrada_carvalhais Isabel Estrada Carvalhais] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190904204944/http://www.cicp.eeg.uminho.pt/_isabel_estrada_carvalhais |date=4 September 2019 }} [[University of Minho]].</ref>
==Political career== In parliament, Carvalhais has been serving on the [[Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development]] (since 2019) and the [[Committee on Fisheries]] (since 2020). In 2020, she also joined the Committee of Inquiry on the Protection of Animals during Transport.<ref>[https://www.europarl.europa.eu/sed/doc/news/flash/24221/Full%20Members%20new%20committees_09-07-2020_en.pdf Members of the Committee of Inquiry on the Protection of Animals during Transport] [[European Parliament]], press release of July 9, 2020.</ref>
In addition to her committee assignments, Carvalhais is part of the parliament's delegations for relations with the [[United States]].<ref>[https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/199996/ISABEL_CARVALHAIS/home Isabel Carvalhais] [[European Parliament]].</ref> She is also part of the European Parliament Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development,<ref>[https://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/files/organisation-and-rules/organisation/intergroups/list-of-members-climate-change-biodiversity-and-sustainable-development.pdf Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development] [[European Parliament]].</ref> the [[European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights]]<ref>[https://lgbti-ep.eu/who-we-are/members/ Members] European Parliament Intergroup on LGBTI Rights.</ref> and the European Parliament Intergroup on Disability.<ref>[http://edf-feph.org/members-disability-intergroup-sd Members of the Disability Intergroup - S&D] European Disability Forum.</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|3}} {{Current EP Portugal}}{{EP Political Group S&D}} {{Authority control}}
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