section_path: Early life, education, and early career
section_name: Early life, education, and early career
paragraph_text: Early life, education, and early career
  
  António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres was born on 30 April 1949, in the parish of Parede, in the municipality of Cascais. Because he was born while his family was on vacation, he was registered when his family returned to Lisbon as having been born in Santos-o-Velho in Lisbon, the son of Virgílio Dias Guterres and Ilda Cândida dos Reis Oliveira Guterres.
  
  Guterres attended the Camões Lyceum (now Camões Secondary School), where he graduated in 1965, winning the National Lyceums Award (Prémio Nacional dos Liceus) as the best student in the country. He studied physics and electrical engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico – Technical University of Lisbon in Lisbon. He graduated in 1971 and started an academic career as an assistant professor teaching systems theory and telecommunications signals, before leaving academic life to start a political career. During his university years, he joined the Group of Light, a club for young Catholics, where he met Father Vítor Melícias, a prominent Franciscan priest and church administrator who remains a close friend and confidant.