Elisa Maria da Costa Guimarães Ferreira, GCC (born October 17, 1955 in Porto) is a Portuguese politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Socialist Party; part of the Party of European Socialists between 2004 and 2016.Ferreira served as Minister of Environment (1995-1999) and as Minister for Planning (1999-2001) in the government of Prime Minister António Guterres of Portugal.Ferreira was a Member of the European Parliament from the 2004 European elections until her resignation in 2016. Throughout her time in parliament, she served as a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. In this capacity, she drafted the committee’s own-initiative report on closer coordination of economic policies, which calls for the European Central Bank (ECB) to be granted powers to monitor “financial stability in the euro-area” and to be involved “in EU-wide macroprudential supervision of systematically important financial institutions.” She was also in charge of the parliament’s report on the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure in 2011 and led the parliament’s work on the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM) in 2013. Wikipedia
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