Dulce de Jesus Soares
Dulce de Jesus Soares | |
|---|---|
Soares in 2019 | |
| Minister of Education | |
| Assumed office 1 July 2023 | |
| President | José Ramos-Horta |
| Prime Minister | Xanana Gusmão |
| Preceded by | Armindo Maia |
| Minister of Education, Youth and Sport | |
| In office 22 June 2018 – 25 May 2020 | |
| President | Francisco Guterres |
| Prime Minister | Taur Matan Ruak |
| Preceded by | Fernando Hanjam |
| Succeeded by | Armindo Maia |
| Deputy Minister of Education I | |
| In office 16 February 2015 – 15 September 2017 | |
| President | Taur Matan Ruak |
| Prime Minister | Rui Maria de Araújo |
| Succeeded by | Lurdes Maria Bessa |
| Deputy Minister of Basic Education | |
| In office 8 August 2012 – 16 February 2015 | |
| President | Taur Matan Ruak |
| Prime Minister | Xanana Gusmão |
| Preceded by | Paulo Assis Belo |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 October 1967 |
| Party | National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT) |
| Alma mater | Udayana University (BA) Victoria University (MA) |
Dulce de Jesus Soares (born 20 October 1967) is an East Timorese politician who has served as Minister of Education in Timor-Leste's IX Constitutional Government since 2023. A member of the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT) party, she previously served as Minister of Education, Youth and Sport in the VIII Constitutional Government from 2018 to 2020. She served as a deputy minister of education in early governments from 2012 to 2015 and again from 2015 to 2017.
Born in Maliana, she completed her undergraduate education in Indonesia and later earned a master's degree in Australia. She began her career as an English teacher and than as a regional planning official in the Bobonaro Municipality government. Before entering government, she was a program officer with UNICEF working on developing Timor-Leste's laws and policies related to children's rights.