Career
He is a substitute for the Committee on Budgetary Control, the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, the Committee of Inquiry into the collapse of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, the delegation to the European Union-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, and the delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly. Joel Hasse Ferreira became a graduate of Lisbon Higher Technical Institute in civil engineering in 1971. In 1987 he became a doctor in management sciences at Jean Moulin University in Lyon.
He was a professor at the New University of Lisbon and at the Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies.
He was the Administrator, from 1986 to 1990, and President, from 1990 to 1992, of the public town-planning company of Lisbon. In 2001 and 2002 he was the President of the Institute for the Management of Social Security Capitalisation Funds.
From 1995 to 2001, he also was the Socialist Party coordinator in the Parliamentary Committee on the Economy, Finance and Planning. He was Vice-Chairman of the Socialist Party parliamentary group from 1996 to 1999.
From 2002 to 2005, he was the Socialist Party coordinator for financial affairs in the parliamentary group and the research unit
