João Mariano Saldanha

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João Mariano de Sousa Saldanha (born February 12, 1963 in Uato-Lari , Portuguese Timor ) is an East Timorese politician, economist and university professor. Saldanha is chairman of the Partidu Republikanu (PR).

Career

Saldanha was born in Uato-Lari. During the Portuguese colonial era, he attended primary school in Uato-Lari and secondary school in Dili , until the Indonesian invasion of 1975 interrupted his education. In 1977 he and his family were caught in the Indonesian bombing of the refugee camps on Mount Matebian . Finally, Saldanha was able to attend school in Dili and Baucau again in the 1980s before receiving a scholarship to high school in Malang , Indonesia .

Saldanha holds a PhD in Economics from the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California (2001) and a Masters in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird School of Global Management) in Glendale, Arizona (1993 ) and a bachelor's degree in economics from the Christian University of Satya Wacana ( Indonesian Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana , UKSW) in Salatiga, Indonesia (1984–1989). He was a visiting student at the Institute of International Development at Harvard University (August 1996 to June 1997) and at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University .

Saldanha taught economics from 1989 to 1992 at the Universitas Kristen Krida Wacana and also at the Atmajaya University in Jakarta . From 1994 to 1995 he was research fellow at Charles Darwin University and from July 1995 to August 1996 visiting professor at Harvard University. From 2001 to 2007, Saldanha was Executive Director of the Timor Study Group (TIDS). In the East Timorese Ministry of Finance , he served as a senior economic advisor from February 15, 2008 to December 31, 2013. From January 2, 2014, he was the founder of the Timor Institute of Development Studies , which he headed until December 2015. Saldanha was also a faculty member at the Dili Institute of Technology (DIT). Since 2014 he has been chairman of the João Saldanha Foundation, which he founded . Until 2007, Saldanha was a member of the East Timor State Council .

Saldanha has been the chairman of the Partidu Republikanu since it was founded in 2007. The party is center-left; Saldanha used to be one of the supporters of East Timor’s autonomy within Indonesia.

In 2015, Saldanha founded the private João Saldanha University (JSU), the only university in East Timor that teaches exclusively in English. Saldanha is president of the university and teaches economics and management. The final recognition by the Agência Nacional para a Avaliação e Acreditação Académica (ANAAA) is still pending.

Private

Saldanha has been married since 2011. His family is considered influential. Saldanha's older brother Salvador Ximenes Soares is the publisher of the Suara Timor Lorosa'e newspaper and was a member of the Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly . Estanislau de Sousa Saldanha is the former rector of the Dili Institute of Technology.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National Library of Australia: The political economy of East Timor development / Joao Mariano de Sousa Saldanha , accessed March 5, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Nassrine Azimi, Matt Fuller, Hiroko Nakayama: Post-conflict Reconstruction in Japan, Republic of Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor and Afghanistan: Proceedings of an International Conference in Hiroshima, Nov. 2002 , United Nations Publications, 2003 S 17.
  3. ↑ a b c d Political Parties and groupings of Timor-Leste ( Memento from June 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 996 kB)
  4. ↑ Ruth Elizabeth Nuttall: The Origins and Onset of the 2006 Crisis in Timor-Leste , PhD Thesis, The Australian National University, February 2017 , accessed July 31, 2019.
  5. ^ Speech by João Mariano Saldanha on the founding of the party in 2007
  6. ↑ Facebook presence of the Movimentu Juventude Partido Republikanu: Post by Malandro Enenes from March 2, 2016
  7. ↑ João Saldanha University: About us , accessed June 26, 2020.
  8. ↑ Guterres, Francisco da Costa: Elites and Prospects of Democracy in East Timor , Griffith University, 2006. , accessed August 15, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Saldanha, João Mariano
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saldanha, João Mariano de Sousa (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese politician, economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Uato-Lari , Portuguese Timor