Beatriz Porée

Beatriz Borges de Sousa Vaz Moreno Porée is a Jersey politician who has served as Deputy for St Helier South since 2022.

Porée was born in Angola, but was raised in Portugal after becoming a child refugee in the Angolan Civil War. She moved to Jersey in the late 1980s and founded a juice bar business in the Central Market. Porée successfully ran for election in the 2022 general election as a Reform Jersey candidate in St Helier South, becoming the first person of colour and second person of Portuguese descent to be elected to the States Assembly.