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Antonio Feijo takes over the position of president of Galust Külpenkean Foundation 
On May 3, 2022, Professor Antonio Feijo took charge of Galust Külpenkea. 
The position of the president of the foundation. he was elected president on December 15, 2021 
at the plenary meeting of the Foundation's trustee body. Antonio Feijo was a non-executive member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation in 2018. 
since the date He is the first president who specializes in social studies 
in received his doctorate from Brown University (United States) in 1985, 
specializing in English and North American literature. On the same topic 
he received his master's degree from the State University of New York at Albany (1979). Feijo is a lecturer at the University of Lisbon (English Studies and Literary Theory 
section). Previously, he was from the School of Arts and Sociology at the University of Lisbon 
director, among many other high administrative positions. English, American 
and numerous books and articles on ventriloquist literature 
is the author. among other works, he also translated Shakespeare and 
From the works of Oscar Wilde. In his inauguration speech, Antonio Feijo emphasized that Galust Külpenkea 
The foundation is a "charitable institution that embodies it 
the legacy that Galust Sargis Külpenkean left for his time and his century 
the unique person. any person who manages the Foundation is obliged to observe it 
the lasting nature of heritage". The former president, Ms. Isabel Mota, received a standing ovation from the Foundation 
for his 26 years of service, chairing it for the past five years.
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Professor António Feijó assumed the mandate of President of the Calouste 
Gulbenkian Foundation on May 3, 2022 during an official public ceremony. He was 
elected to the post by the Board of Trustees on December 15, 2021. António Feijó has been a non-executive member of the Calouste Gulbenkian 
Foundation Board since 2018. He is the first President with a Humanities 
background and holds a PhD in English and North American Literature from Brown 
University (USA, 1985), and a MA in English and North American Literature from 
the State University of New York at Albany (1979). He is a Full Professor at 
Lisbon University (Department of English Studies and the Programme of Theory of 
Literature). He was the Director of the University’s School of Arts and 
Humanities, and has held other senior administrative positions. He is the author 
of several books and essays related to English, American and Portuguese 
literature, and has translated William Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde into 
Portuguese, among other literary works. In his inaugural speech as President, António Feijó highlighted that the 
Foundation is “a philanthropic institution which embodies the legacy left behind 
by a rare larger-than-life individual of his times and of his century: Calouste 
Sarkis Gulbenkian.” He added, “any person who leads the Foundation at any given 
moment has the duty to protect the perpetual nature of that legacy.”
 
The former President, Isabel Mota, was honoured with a standing ovation for her 
26 years of service to the Foundation, the last five of which were as President. -- END --