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Esperança Bias
12:18 CAT | 7 July 2020
Former Speaker of the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique ,from 13.01.2020; to January 2025; Former Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy from 2094 to 2015.Member of Parliament of the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique..
Esperança Bias was born on the 28th of July 1958 in the Island of Mozambique, Nampula Province. She is the daughter of Francisco Nhiuane Bias and Laurinda Augusto Faustino. She did Primary and Secondary education in the province of Nampula, she finished primary school at Dona Filipa Primary School in 1970 and secondary school at Liceu Almirante Gago Coutinho in 1978. In 1979, she attended the propaedeutic course at Eduardo Mondlane University in the city of Maputo.
Between 1976 and 1980, Esperança Bias worked as a clerk at Banco Standard Totta (now Standard Bank) and in 1983 she joined the National Mines Company, where she was head of Administrative Services and, in the following year, she became Head of Department. From 1984 to 1987 she worked at Gemas e Pedras Lapidadas,(GPL) also as Head of Department.
In 1987, she was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Lapidation Industry, a role she held until 1990.
In 1990, Bias graduated in Economics from Eduardo Mondlane University and after she was appointed to the position of General Director of GPL, which she held until 1991. On the same year (1991), she started working at the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy (MIREME), where she successively assumed the functions of Deputy Director of Coal (1991-1994), Deputy Director of Economics (1994-1998) and Director of Economics until she was appointed, in 1999, to the post of Deputy Minister of MIREME.
She served as deputy minister of MIREME until 2004. In 2004, Esperança Bias was entrusted with the position of Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy, a role she held until 2015.
Source: Carta de Moçambique
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