Maria Elisa
Maria Elisa Rogado Contente Domingues Hartman, known as Maria Elisa is a Portuguese journalist and television presenter.
Early years
Maria Elisa was born in Lisbon, Portugal. After attending the Medical School of the University of Lisbon for two years and the Drama School for another two, she trained as a professional journalist at the Centre de Formation des Journalistes, in Paris.Career
As a journalist with RTP, the Portuguese Public Television, she was the author and hostess of her own political and cultural talk shows since 1977. She received and interviewed most of the Presidents, Prime Ministers and other politicians, writers, painters and many other relevant cultural Portuguese personalities as well as business men and union leaders, among many others. She was the hostess of The Greatest Portuguese, a BBC format.In her life Maria Elisa Domingues had other professional experiences: she was the Press Counselor to Prime Minister Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo ; Program Director of RTP ; Press Counselor with the Portuguese Embassy in Madrid ; Director of Communication of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Cultural Counselor with the Portuguese Embassy in London.
Maria Elisa nowadays is the President of Associação dos Jornalistas Europeus and also a regular contributor to some of Portugal's largest newspapers and news magazines, such as Diário de Notícias, Público, Expresso and Visão.