Luís Gomes (張子軒), who had been a vice-president of the Sports Bureau (ID) since November last year, has been appointed as the bureau’s president, effective from today.
Gomes’s one-year appointment was made through an executive order by Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Elsie Ao Ieong U, who oversees the bureau, published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday. Ao Ieong signed the executive order on Friday last week.
The executive order underlines Gomes’s “professional competence and aptitude” for the post.
Gomes had been the bureau’s acting president since August 15 when Pun Weng Kun, the then president of the bureau was appointed as the coordinator of the Macau government’s preparatory office for the organisation of the 15th National Games, which will be co-hosted by Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau next year.
Pun had been the bureau’s president since February 2016.
Pun’s new position starting from the middle of August this year will run until June 30, 2026.
Before being appointed as a vice-president of the Sports Bureau in November last year, Gomes had been working in the Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ).
According to Ao Ieong’s executive order published yesterday, Gomes holds a bachelor’s degree in Physical Education and Sports from the then Macao Polytechnic Institute (IPM), which was upgraded to Macao Polytechnic University (MPU) in 2022. He holds a master’s degree in Education (Physical Education and Sports) from the University of Macau (UM).
According to the executive order, Gomes started working in the then Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ), the predecessor of the current DSEDJ, in 2011, when he became a division chief in April 2019, before being promoted to the chief of the DSEDJ Non-Tertiary Education Department in May 2022.
Gomes is former member of the Macau Special Administrative Region’s (MSAR) taekwondo team.
Sports Bureau (ID) then acting president Luís Gomes speaks to reporters early this month at the MGM Macau resort in Nape when summarising the 2024 Paris Olympic Games Mainland Olympians delegation’s three-day visit to Macau. – Photo: Yuki Lei
