Filipe Martins (POR) will begin working at JESC in September 2021, becoming, at the same time, member of the St. Benedict Community in Brussels. He will be Congress Officer for the preparation of the Justice Congress that will take place in Loyola in April 2022 and Justice Renewal Assistant.

Filipe was born in Lisbon in 1970, got a degree in Electronics Engineering before entering the Society of Jesus in 1995, after a year of volunteer work in Mozambique. He studied Theology in Madrid and Rome. In the last fifteen years he has worked in university pastoral and was director of a shelter for homeless people. He served the province as Vocation Promoter, Coordinator of the Social Sector and Socius to the Provincial. For the last three years he was General Director of a Jesuit School in the North of Portugal.

His coming to Brussels is actually a return to Belgium, as he was an Erasmus student in Louvain-la-Neuve in 1993.

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