Esperança bias

Esperança Laurinda Francisco Nhiuane Bias , just Esperança Bias , (born July 28, 1958 in Ilha de Moçambique , Nampula Province , Portuguese East Africa ) is a Mozambican politician ( FRELIMO ). Between 1991 and 2014 Bias worked in the Ministry of Natural Resources of Mozambique, which she also headed from 2005 to 2015.

Life

Youth and education

Esperança Bias was born on July 28, 1958 in the town of the Ilha de Moçambique of the same name - the former colonial capital - in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique . Bias completed her school education in the provincial capital Nampula , first at the Escola Primária Dona Filipa (until 1970), then at the secondary school Liceu Almirante Gago Coutinho (until 1978). She then moved to the capital, Maputo , where she first completed a preparatory course in 1979 at Eduardo Mondlane University . Later, in her professional life, she made up for a degree in economics in 1990 at the same university.

Professional background

In 1976, Bias began working as a typist at Bank Standard Totta before moving to the state mine administration Empresa Nacional de Minas in 1983 . There she worked her way up to head of administrative services and later to head of department. Then she changed the company, from 1984 to 1987 Bias held a similar position (as department head) at Gemas e Pedras Lapidadas , a mining company. From 1987 to 1990 she headed the stone grinding department ("Lapidação"). From 1990 to 1991 she managed the entire company.

Call to the Ministry of Natural Resources

In 1991 Esperança Bias moved to the Ministry of Natural Resources (MIREM). There she was initially deputy head of the coal department (until 1994), then deputy head of the economic department (until 1998) before she headed the same department until 1999. In 1999, after Joaquim Chissanos was re- elected President, she was appointed Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Energy. She held this position until the end of the legislature in 2005.

In the subsequent presidential election in October 2004, Chisan's successor, Armando Guebuza , won the election. This promoted Bias to Minister for Natural Resources in January 2005. Bias headed the ministry for two legislative terms until the beginning of 2015. Guebuza's successor, Filipe Nyusi , appointed Pedro Conceição Couto to succeed Bias.

During the period in which Bias was in office, the so-called “resource boom” in Mozambique, the discovery of the world's third largest natural gas deposit in the Rovuma Basin, occurred . Mozambique also joined the EITI , the Natural Resource Transparency Initiative .

In the 2014 parliamentary elections , Bias won a seat on the list of Cabo Delgado Province and has been a member of Mozambique's parliament ever since .

Private

Bias is married and has two children. Her mother tongue is Portuguese, she also speaks Makua and English. She lives in Matola-Rio .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Ministros dos Recursos Minerais e Energia. Ministério dos Recursos Minerais e Energia, 2015, accessed October 13, 2016 (Portuguese). 
2. ↑ Manuel Carvalho and Manuel Roberto: Esperança Bias: "A bacia do Rovuma ainda tem muito para dar". In: Público. September 21, 2014, accessed October 12, 2016 (Portuguese).