The government has appointed Luís Gomes (張子軒), who has been the president of the Sports Bureau (ID) since September last year, as a vice-president of the Social Security Fund (FSS), effective from Saturday.
Gomes’s current one-year appointment as the bureau’s president is scheduled to end tomorrow.
Gomes’s one-year appointment to his new post was made through an executive order by Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Wallis O Lam, who oversees both the bureau and the fund, published in the Official Gazette (BO) yesterday. O signed the executive order on Wednesday last week.
Gomes was appointed as a vice-president of the Sports Bureau in November 2023, before being promoted to the bureau’s president one year ago, through a one-year appointment, which started on September 20 last year and is slated to end tomorrow.
Before his appointment to the Sports Bureau, Gomes had worked at the Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ).
O’s executive order published yesterday pointed out that 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.
According to the executive order, 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 also holds a master’s degree in Education (Physical Education and Sports) from the University of Macau (UM).
The Social Security Fund, which runs Macau’s social security system, has two vice-presidents in its organisational structure.
The fund has been headed by Chan Pou Wan since June this year. Previously, the fund had been headed by Iong Kong Io since December 2015. After Iong retired in December last year, Chan had been the fund’s acting president during the interim period until she was appointed as the fund’s president.
Chan had been a vice-president of the fund since October 2010. Currently, both of the fund’s two vice-president positions are vacant. Consequently, after Gomes’s new appointment starts on Saturday, one of the two positions will still be vacant.
This file photo taken last month shows Sports Bureau (ID) President Luís Gomes addressing a press conference at the Galaxy International Convention Centre (GICC) in Cotai about the 2025 World Table Tennis (WTT) Champions Macao, which concluded on Sunday. – Photo: Tony Wong
