H.E. Rui Augusto Gomes has been the Minister of Finance since November 2020, under the VIII Constitutional Government of Timor-Leste led by Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak. Previously, H.E. Minister Gomes served in the same office in the earlier VII Constitutional Government, as economic adviser and Chief of Staff to the President of Timor-Leste, and as a university lecturer.