Clara Ferreira Alves

Clara Ferreira Alves   (journalist, writer)
Born	2 August 1956
Nationality	Portuguese
Alma mater	University of Coimbra
Member of	German Marshall Fund
Portuguese journalist who attended the 2011 Bilderberg. Member of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund

Maria Clara Ferreira Alvesis a Portuguese journalist and writer. She is a member of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. She attended the 2011 Bilderberg meeting.

Career

She took a Degree in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, but abandoned her legal internship to become a journalist.

She started in the newsroom of A Tarde. She then went to Correio da Manhã and Jornal de Letras.

Later, she was the main editor, editor and literary critic at Expresso. She became notable as a columnist in the magazine Única, where she has written a column for over 20 years.

She was also a columnist for Máxima magazine, the online newspaper Diário Digital and TSF radio.

She was a war reporter in the Gulf during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Between 2000 and 2004 she was director of Casa Fernando Pessoa.

In 2004 she publicly refused the post of director of the Diário de Notícias.

She was a member of the Board of Directors of Centro Cultural de Belém.

On television, she participated many programs. She is a commentator on the political opinion program O Eixo do Mal, on SIC Notícias.

She has published several fiction books.

She is a member of the jury of the Pessoa Prize and of the German Marshall Fund in Portugal, and of the General Council of the University of Coimbra.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2011	9 June 2011	12 June 2011	Switzerland Hotel Suvretta St. Moritz	59th meeting, in Switzerland, 129 guests