Cláudia André

Cláudia André (born 1971) is a Portuguese politician. A member of the centre-right Social Democratic Party (PSD), André was elected to the Assembly of the Republic in 2019, as a representative of the Castelo Branco constituency.

Early life and education Cláudia Sofia Farinha André was born on 24 May 1971 in Sertã in the Castelo Branco District in the east of Portugal. She spent two years studying social security in Lisbon but then left that course and enrolled to study geography at the University of Coimbra, graduating in 1997. André married Victor Manuel Dias Tomás and they have a son and a daughter. She returned to Coimbra University in 2011 to take a one-year course on geographic information systems.

Career André was a geography teacher for 22 years, serving in many different schools. Being discouraged by what she saw as mistreatment by the ministry of education, she decided to devote herself to politics on a full-time basis.