Vasco Alves Cordeiro is the President of the European Committee of the Regions’ Commission for Territorial Cohesion Policy and EU Budget (COTER). He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal and an EU outermost region. A member of the European Committee of the Regions since 2008, Vasco Alves Cordeiro was President of this institution between June 2022 and February 2025.