Executive body
It is made up of a first secretary and four metropolitan secretaries (two of whom are non-executive).
The list of candidates for membership of the Metropolitan Executive Committee is approved by the Metropolitan Council and put to the vote in the municipal assemblies of the municipalities that make up the metropolitan area.
Composition
A comissão executiva foi empossada pelo presidente do Conselho Metropolitano de Lisboa, Carlos Moedas, no dia 22 de janeiro de 2026, na sede da AML.
Its composition is as follows:

Metropolitan First Secretary
Emanuel Costa
Áreas de competência / governação metropolitana
- Coordenação da Comissão Executiva
- Administração Geral
- Reforço Institucional
- Representação Institucional
- Cooperação, Relações Externas e Internacionais
- Comunicação
- Gestão Financeira e Patrimonial
- Human Resources
- Mobilidade e Autoridade de Transportes
- Fundos Comunitários – Planeamento e Desenvolvimento Estratégico
- Spatial Planning, Urbanism and the Environment

Metropolitan secretary
Filipa Guimarães
Áreas de competência / governação metropolitana subdelegadas pelo primeiro-secretário metropolitano
- Assuntos Sociais
- Saúde
- Fundos Comunitários – Gestão
- Migrações
- Formação Profissional Intermunicipal

Secretário metropolitano
Ricardo Teixeira
Áreas de competência / governação metropolitana subdelegadas pelo primeiro-secretário metropolitano
- Housing
- Education
- Culture
- Investimento e oportunidade de financiamento
- Central de compras para os municípios e demais entidades aderentes

Metropolitan secretary
Cristina Escórcio
Áreas de competência / governação metropolitana subdelegadas pelo primeiro-secretário metropolitano
- Civil Protection
- Segurança
- Food Transition
- Climate change
- Bem-estar Animal

Secretário metropolitano
Vasco Teles Touguinha
Áreas de competência / governação metropolitana subdelegadas pelo primeiro-secretário metropolitano
- Youth
- Sports
- Inovação e Territórios Inteligentes
- Public Libraries
- Economic Development
Eixos prioritários e objetivos estratégicos (mandato 2025-2029)
São oito os eixos prioritários (reforço institucional, habitação, mobilidade, coesão social, ambiente e ordenamento do território, inovação, segurança e proteção civil e fundos e investimento) e 58 os objetivos estratégicos para o atual mandato.
A visão que orienta as propostas assenta em três princípios fundamentais: coesão territorial e social, escala metropolitana e capacidade pública.
Os objetivos estratégicos visam consolidar uma governação metropolitana mais forte, mais próxima dos cidadãos e mais orientada para resultados concretos, e estabelecer um rumo que marque o desenvolvimento da Área Metropolitana de Lisboa não somente neste quadriénio, mas ao longo das décadas seguintes.
Pode consultar aqui o documento integral.
Meetings
A Comissão Executiva Metropolitana tem reuniões ordinárias quinzenalmente. Pode consultar aqui o calendário das reuniões do ano de 2026.
Skills
A summary of the main competencies of the Metropolitan Executive Committee can be read in article 76 of Annex I to Law no. 75/2013, of September 12th
- To submit to the metropolitan council the realization of metropolitan assignments.
- Propose investment and development plans, programs and projects of metropolitan interest to the government.
- To express its opinion and collaborate in plans, projects and programs of metropolitan interest promoted by central government entities.
- Ensuring coordination between municipalities and central government services.
- Collaborate with the central and municipal civil protection services in the fulfillment of emergency plans and protection, rescue and assistance operations in the imminence or occurrence of a serious accident or disaster.
- Participating in the management of regional development programs and submitting applications for funding through programs, projects and other initiatives.
- Execute the plan and budget options approved by the metropolitan council.
- To present the metropolitan council with proposals for harmonization in the field of municipal tax powers;
- Approving projects, tendering programs, specifications and the awarding of contracts and the acquisition of goods and services, for which it is responsible for authorizing expenditure.
- Proposing to the metropolitan council the AML representative on the general assembly of local companies and other entities, bodies or commissions.
- Submitting accountability documents to the metropolitan council.
- Acquiring and leasing goods and services and carrying out contract work.
- Managing the metropolitan technical and administrative support services.
- Participate in advisory and management bodies of central administration entities;
- Proposing a declaration of public utility for the purposes of expropriation;
- Send the AML's accounts to the Court of Auditors and inform the municipal assemblies of their municipalities.
- Develop projects to train the municipalities' human resources.
- Develop projects to support municipal management.
- Ensuring compliance with the metropolitan council's resolutions.
- Discuss and prepare with government departments and city councils contracts for the delegation of powers, under the terms of this law, after authorization from the metropolitan council.
- Submitting proposals for the resolution and revocation of inter-administrative contracts to the metropolitan council.
- Exercising its legal powers, including those that the state may transfer to the AML as part of decentralization.
The metropolitan executive committee may delegate its powers to the first secretary, with the option of sub-delegation to the metropolitan secretaries.
It is the responsibility of the first secretary, who may sub-delegate to the metropolitan secretaries, to sign contracts on behalf of the AML.
The metropolitan executive committee is also responsible for appearing before municipal assemblies.
Distribuição de funções e subdelegação de competências
Distribuição de funções pelos membros atuais da Comissão Executiva Metropolitana de Lisboa, de acordo com o despacho 13/PSM/2026 e subdelegação de competências do primeiro-secretário nos secretários metropolitanos da comissão executiva, de acordo com o despacho 14/PSM/2026.
Os despachos foram também publicados em Diário da República, a 13 de fevereiro de 2026: (DR- Despacho 1917/2026) e (DR – Despacho 1916/2026).
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