{{Short description|Portuguese politician (born 1968)}} {{Distinguish|Isabel dos Santos}} {{Portuguese name|Coelho|Santos}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Isabel Santos | honorific_suffix = | image = Isabel Santos (MP, Portugal), Chair of the OSCE PA's human rights committee, Copenhagen, 27 April 2015 (cropped).jpg | office = [[Member of the European Parliament]] <br /> for [[Portugal (European Parliament constituency)|Portugal]] | term_start = 1 July 2019 | term_end = 15 July 2024 | office1 = Member of the [[Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)|Assembly of the Republic]] | term_start2 = 23 October 2015 | term_end2 = 2019 | term_start3 = 10 March 2005 | term_end3 = 20 June 2011 | constituency3 = [[Porto District|Porto]] | birth_name = Maria Isabel Coelho Santos | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1968|2|12}} | birth_place = [[Valbom]], [[Gondomar, Portugal|Gondomar]],<br />[[Porto District]], [[Estado Novo (Portugal)|Portugal]] | party = [[Socialist Party (Portugal)|Socialist Party]] | mother = Maria Adelina Cardoso Coelho | father = Joaquim Fernando dos Anjos Coelho | spouse = <!-- Divorced from an unnamed spouse --> | alma_mater = [[University of Porto]] | occupation = Politician | profession = civil servant | website = | signature = }} '''Maria Isabel Coelho Santos''' (born 12 February 1968)<ref name="CM-Maia">[http://www.cm-pvarzim.pt/municipio/actos-eleitorais-e-referendos/eleicoes-legislativas-2015/listas-de-candidatos-definitivamente-admitidas/03-ps.pdf "Partido Socialista – Eleições para a Assembleia da República (Círculo Eleitoral do Porto)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020090055/http://www.cm-pvarzim.pt/municipio/actos-eleitorais-e-referendos/eleicoes-legislativas-2015/listas-de-candidatos-definitivamente-admitidas/03-ps.pdf |date=20 October 2016 }} {{in lang|pt}}. Retrieved 21 November 2017.</ref> is a Portuguese politician of the [[Socialist Party (Portugal)|Socialist Party]] who was a [[Member of the European Parliament]].
==Political career== ===Member of the Portuguese Parliament=== Santos was a member of the [[Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)|Assembly of the Republic]] from 2015 until 2019 and from 2005 until 2011.<ref name="AR">{{cite web|title=Biografia (Isabel Santos) |url=https://www.parlamento.pt/DeputadoGP/Paginas/Biografia.aspx?BID=2103 |website=parlamento.pt |language=Portuguese |publisher=[[Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)|Assembly of the Republic]] |access-date=21 November 2017}}</ref> During her time in parliament, she served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
In addition to her committee assignments, Santos was a member of the Portuguese delegation to the [[Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe]]. In this capacity, she served as the Assembly's vice-chair and led several [[election monitoring]] missions, including for the [[2017 German federal election|2017 elections]] in Germany<ref>[https://www.osce.org/parliamentary-assembly/345571 Highly competitive German elections a demonstration of faith in democracy, say international observers] [[Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe]] (OSCE), press release of 25 September 2017.</ref> and the [[2018 United States elections|2018 midterm elections]] in the United States.<ref>[https://www.osce.org/parliamentary-assembly/401546 OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to deploy election observation mission to the United States] [[Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe]] (OSCE), press release of 30 October 2018.</ref><ref>Christian Caryl (9 November 2018), [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/11/09/now-i-know-what-it-feels-like-to-live-in-a-banana-republic/ Now I know what it feels like to live in a banana republic] ''[[The Washington Post]]''.</ref>
===Member of the European Parliament=== Since becoming a [[Member of the European Parliament]], Santos has been serving on the [[European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs|Committee on Foreign Affairs]] and of its [[Subcommittee on Human Rights]]. She is also a member of the Democracy Support and Election Coordination Group (DEG), which oversees the Parliament's election observation missions.<ref>[https://www.europarl.europa.eu/globaldemocracysupport/en/home/democracy-group.html Democracy Support and Election Coordination Group (DEG)] [[European Parliament]]</ref>
In addition to her committee assignments, Santos chairs the parliament's delegation for relations with the [[Mashriq]] countries and is a member of the delegation to the [[Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly]]. She is also part of the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity<ref>[https://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/files/organisation-and-rules/organisation/intergroups/list-of-members-anti-racism-diversity.pdf Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity] [[European Parliament]].</ref> and the [[European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights]].<ref>[https://lgbti-ep.eu/who-we-are/members/ Members] European Parliament Intergroup on LGBTI Rights.</ref>
==Other activities== * Fight Impunity, Member of the Honorary Board (–2022)<ref>[https://www.fightimpunity.com/who-we-are Honorary Board] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407050452/https://www.fightimpunity.com/who-we-are |date=7 April 2023 }} Fight Impunity.</ref><ref>Sarah Wheaton and Vincent Manancourt (11 December 2022), [https://www.politico.eu/article/big-names-bail-from-ngo-caught-up-in-eu-parliament-graft-scandal/ Big names bail from NGO caught up in EU Parliament graft scandal] ''[[Politico Europe]]''.</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons}} * {{URL|www.ps.pt/2016/06/01/isabel-santos/|Isabel Santos – Partido Socialista}} {{in lang|pt}} {{Current EP Portugal}} {{EP Political Group S&D}}
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