Dulce de Jesus Soares | |
|---|---|
 Soares in 2019 | |
| Minister of Education | |
| Assumed office 1 July 2023 | |
| Prime Minister | Xanana Gusmão |
| Preceded by | Armindo Maia |
| Minister of Education, Youth and Sports | |
| In office 22 June 2018 – 25 May 2020 | |
| Prime Minister | Taur Matan Ruak |
| Preceded by | Fernando Hanjam |
| Succeeded by | Armindo Maia |
| Deputy Minister of Education I | |
| In office 16 February 2015 – 15 September 2017 | |
| Prime Minister | Rui Maria de Araújo |
| Succeeded by | Lurdes Maria Bessa |
| Deputy Minister of Basic/Primary Education | |
| In office 8 August 2012 – 16 February 2015 | |
| Prime Minister | Xanana Gusmão |
| Preceded by | Paulo Assis Belo |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT) |
Dulce de Jesus Soares is an East Timorese politician, and a member of the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT).
She is the incumbent Minister of Education, serving since July 2023 in the IX Constitutional Government of East Timor led by Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão.
Previously, from June 2018 to May 2020, she was the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports in the VIII Constitutional Government; in earlier constitutional governments, she had been the Deputy Minister of Education I and the Deputy Minister of Basic/Primary Education.[note 1]
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