Manuel Caldeira Cabral has been a member of the Socialist Party elected by Braga since October 2015. He has been Professor of Economics at the University of Minho since 2004. Former Minister of Economy Manuel Caldeira Cabral leads the strategic council of Startup Portugal. He worked as a full-time researcher in the Department of Economics at the University of Nottingham, as a PhD student, on a Praxis XXI PhD fellowship.