Isabel da Costa Ferreira

Isabel da Costa Ferreira
Ferreira in 2016
Spouse of the Prime Minister
of East Timor
In office
22 June 2018 – 18 June 2023
Prime MinisterTaur Matan Ruak
Preceded byMarina Ribeiro
Succeeded byVacant
First Lady of East Timor
In role
20 May 2012 – 20 May 2017
PresidentTaur Matan Ruak
Preceded byJoy Aquino Siapno (2008)
Succeeded byCidália Lopes Nobre Mouzinho Guterres
Personal details
Born
Isabel da Costa Ferreira

(1974-04-15)15 April 1974
Same, Portuguese Timor
Died18 June 2023(2023-06-18) (aged 49)
Dili, East Timor
NationalityEast Timor East Timorese
Political partyPeople's Liberation Party
Spouse
(m. 2001)

Isabel da Costa Ferreira (15 April 1974 – 18 June 2023), also Isabel Ruak Ferreira, was an East Timorese jurist, human rights activist, politician, and wife of East Timor's former president and former prime minister, Taur Matan Ruak.[1] She was the First Lady of East Timor from 2012 to 2017. Along with her husband, she was a member of Partidu Libertasaun Popular (PLP).

  1. ^ Timor Foundation: First Lady Isabel da Costa Ferreira Archived 3 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine