Mozambican economist Firmino Mucavel dies in South Africa

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Mozambican economist Firmino Mucavel dies in South Africa

12:58 CAT | 20 May 2016

Firmino Mucavel, Mozambican economist and former executive director of NEPAD, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, died yesterday in South Africa.

Confirming the news, Hélder Jauana, a Frelimo deputy in parliament – where Mucavel coordinated the team of advisors – said the economics professor had been having health problems for several months and had gone to South Africa for specialist treatment.

Mucavel is known for his national and international level academic career and as a television commentator on STV’s “Discurso Directo” (Direct Speech) with economist Ragendra de Sousa.

Born January 16, 1957 in Maputo, Firmino Mucavel had been Associate Professor at Eduardo Mondlane University since 1982. At the time of his death, he was president of the Council of Chairs of Research for Development and director of the Centre for International Economics and Governance of Water in Africa (IWEGA).

Mucavel was Scientific Director of Eduardo Mondlane University and the Office for Academic Reform and Regional Integration from 2008 to 2012. He held a PhD in Food and Resource Economics from the University of Florida, US (1994), a masters degree in Agricultural Economics (1988, US), and graduated in Agronomic Engineering from the University Eduardo Mondlane in 1982.

He was economic advisor to the President of the Republic of Mozambique from 2000 to 2006 and Executive Director of the African Union’s New Partnership for Africa’s Development from 1 August 2005 to 31 January 2008.

In 2000, Firmino Mucavel led the United Nations team of African economists who prepared the program for the rapid transfer of technologies to developing countries which formed the basis for the Third Science and Technology Conference on the Least Developed Countries organized by the United Nations.

Source: O País