Luisa Diogo

Luísa Dias Diogo (born April 11, 1958) has been prime minister of Mozambique since February 2004. She replaced Pascoal Mocumbi, who had been prime minister for the previous nine years. Before becoming prime minister she was minister of planning and finance, and she continued to hold that post until February 2005.^[2] She is the first woman to be prime minister of Mozambique. Luisa Diogo represents the party FRELIMO, which has ruled the country since independence in 1975. Diogo studied economics at Maputo's Eduardo Mondlane University. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1983. She went on to obtain a master's degree in financial economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 1992. In 1980, she began working in Mozambique's Finance Ministry. She became a department's head in 1986 and in 1989 became national budget director. Then she worked for the World Bank as program officer in Mozambique. In 1994 she joined the FRELIMO government as deputy finance minister. [1] In September 2005, she was the international guest speaker at the British Labour Party Conference.

See also

• Heads of Government of Mozambique

References

External links

• Blazing a trail for Africa's women

•  • e Prime Ministers of Mozambique
Joaquim Chissano • vacant, 1975-1986 • Mário da Graça Machungo • Pascoal Mocumbi • Luisa Diogo