Third son of Amílcar Nuno Ramalho Ortigão da Silva Pinto (b. Lisbon, São Sebastião da Pedreira, May 14, 1957), a Licentiate in Civil Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, and wife (m. Lisbon, São Sebastião da Pedreira, September 9, 1983) Maria Carolina de Sousa Machado Osório de Aragão (b. Beira, Mozambique, May 29, 1963), a social columnist.