Joel Hasse Ferreira is a Portuguese politician and a Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Socialist Party of Portugal, which is affiliated with the Socialist Group in the European Parliament. He is a member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee. 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 EU-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. 

July 13th, 1944 in Lisbon (Age 79)