{"id":440,"date":"2018-08-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diasporaportuguesa.org\/cidalia-luis-akbar-condecorated\/"},"modified":"2022-12-22T14:56:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T14:56:50","slug":"cidalia-luis-akbar-condecorated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diasporaportuguesa.org\/en\/news\/cidalia-luis-akbar-condecorated\/","title":{"rendered":"Cid\u00e1lia Lu\u00eds-Akbar was honored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\">The member of the Portuguese Diaspora Council, Cid\u00e1lia Lu\u00eds-Akbar, was bestowed the Degree of Commander of the Order of Merit, attributed by the President of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, on the past April, on the USA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The CEO of M. Lu\u00eds Construction received the distinction on a ceremony at the Embassy Residence in Kalorama from the Portuguese Ambassador, Domingos Fezas Vital, on behalf of the President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.<\/p>\n<p>During the ceremony, the Ambassador Fezas Vital highlighted the outstanding way in which Cid\u00e1lia reached her achievements, her resilience and generosity.<\/p>\n<p>Besides leading M. Lu\u00eds Construction with her sister Nat\u00e1lia, <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><a style=\"color: #339966;\" href=\"\/?p=1797&amp;lang=en\">Cid\u00e1lia Lu\u00eds-Akbar<\/a><\/span> was on the Top 100 Women of Maryland on the Daily Record in 2011 and 2014; she won the Awards of Entrepreneur of the Year of Ernst&amp;Young, in Maryland, in 2013, and Women of the Year by the Magazine Enterprising Women 2013; she was considered Women of the Year in 2012 by the National Association of Women Entrepreneurs and she was featured on Forbes Magazine on the June 2011 edition.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Conselho da Diaspora Portuguesa, August 2018<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The member of the Portuguese Diaspora Council, Cid\u00e1lia Lu\u00eds-Akbar, was bestowed the Degree of Commander of the Order of Merit, attributed by the President of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, on the past April, on the USA.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[204,32,264,205,35],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - 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