Teresa Caeiro

Teresa Margarida de Figueiredo de Vasconcelos Caeiro (14 February 1969 – 14 August 2025) was a Portuguese lawyer and politician.

Early life Teresa Margarida de Figueiredo de Vasconcelos Caeiro was born in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon on 14 February 1969. She was the daughter and granddaughter of naval officers, her father being a rear admiral and his father an admiral. His uncle Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos was a Portuguese surrealist poet and painter. As a child she lived in several countries, including Cape Verde and Belgium, where she lived between the ages of 9 and 19, following her father in his work. She graduated in law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, and did an internship at a legal company between 1993 and 1995. Then she worked as a freelance translator at the Court of Justice of the European Union and at the European General Court from 1996 to 1999. Between 1998 and 1999, she was also a lawyer at Portugália Airlines.

Political career A member of the Christian democratic CDS – People's Party (CDS-PP), Caeiro had her first active political experience as a member of the parish assembly of Mercês in Lisbon, between 1997 and 2001. In the late 1990s she was asked to be the legal advisor to the parliamentary group of the CDS-PP, in the Assembly of the Republic. She later became the chief of staff for the same CDS-PP parliamentary group.

Personal life and death Caeiro became an unmarried mother at the age of 37, having a son with a professor, Vasco Rato. In 2011 she married the journalist and writer, Miguel Sousa Tavares, in what was his fourth marriage. They separated in September 2017.

Caeiro died on 14 August 2025, at the age of 56.