Dulce Pássaro

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Dulce Pássaro (born 23 November 1953) is a Portuguese engineer and politician from Oliveira do Hospital in the Coimbra district. She studied chemical engineering at the Instituto Superior Técnico and sanitary engineering at NOVA University Lisbon. She began as an assistant professor and joined the Portuguese civil service in 1977. She held leading roles in environmental waste management, including head of the waste division at the General Directorate for Environmental Quality, director of the waste and recycling service, and later director and president of the Waste Institute. She helped draft laws on maritime pollution, the first national water quality law, the national waste plan, and plans for industrial and hospital waste management, and she prepared waste legislation for Macau. She served on several European Union committees and, from 2003 to 2009, was on the board of the Regulatory Institute of Water and Waste. A member of the Socialist Party, she was Portugal’s Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning from October 2009 to June 2011 in the XVIII Constitutional Government. She left the post when a coalition government was formed after the elections. In October 2017 she led the Socialist Party list for the municipal assembly of Oliveira do Hospital, winning 15 of 21 seats and becoming president of the municipal council.