Cristina Duarte
- Politica
Cristina Duarte was born in Lisbon in 1962 and has Cape Verdean nationality. She attended primary school in Angola, where she lived until she was 12 years old. It was then that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 took place, with the fall of the Portuguese dictatorial regime, the Estado Novo. She attended high school in Cape Verde, until she left for Portugal, where she did a degree in Economics at the Technical University of Lisbon. In the early 1990s she moved to the United States of America and took an MBA in the area of International Finance and Emerging Capital Markets. She is married to an Italian and has a daughter.
Cristina Duarte has a diverse professional experience, namely as General Director of the Studies and Planning Office of the Ministry of Rural Development, as Consultant to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Development Program and the World Bank. In the private sector she worked with Citigroup/Citibank. Since 2006 she has been Governor of the African Development Bank, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. She was Minister of Finance, Planning and Public Administration from Cape Verde, 2006 to 2016.
She is fluent in French, English, Italian, Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole.
Her father, Manuel Duarte, was a Freedom Fighter in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.
Cristina Duarte was born in Lisbon in 1962 and has Cape Verdean nationality. She attended primary school in Angola, where she lived until she was 12 years old. It was then that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 took place, with the fall of the Portuguese dictatorial regime, the Estado Novo. She attended high school in Cape Verde, until she left for Portugal, where she did a degree in Economics at the Technical University of Lisbon. In the early 1990s she moved to the United States of America and took an MBA in the area of International Finance and Emerging Capital Markets. She is married to an Italian and has a daughter.
Cristina Duarte has a diverse professional experience, namely as General Director of the Studies and Planning Office of the Ministry of Rural Development, as Consultant to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Development Program and the World Bank. In the private sector she worked with Citigroup/Citibank. Since 2006 she has been Governor of the African Development Bank, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. She was Minister of Finance, Planning and Public Administration from Cape Verde, 2006 to 2016.
She is fluent in French, English, Italian, Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole.
Her father, Manuel Duarte, was a Freedom Fighter in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.
