Adaljiza Albertina Xavier Reis Magno (born 7 January 1975) is an East Timorese politician and diplomat, and a member of the Fretilin political party.
When militias attacked the refugees there too, the family fled to Bali and did not return to East Timor until after the international intervention force INTERFET arrived in October 1999.
From November 1999 to June 2000, she also worked for the human rights organization HAK [de] as its Popular Education Coordinator, and for the Communication Forum for East Timor Women (FOKUPERS).
In 2000, she represented the East Timor Trade Union Confederation (TLTUC/KSTL) at the 88th Conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva.
In the same year, she took part in an East Timor Action Network (ETAN) speaking tour, which took her to 22 states in the USA.
From June to August 2001, she was a consultant to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in relation to its report on domestic violence in East Timor.
[1] Also in 2001, Magno was elected as one of 55 Fretilin candidates to the Constituent Assembly of East Timor, from which the National Parliament emerged in 2002.
[2] Upon the restructuring of the I Constitutional Government, led by Mari Alkatiri, in July 2005, Magno was appointed as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.
[11] On 2 October 2017, she was reappointed as Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, in the VII Constitutional Government led by Mari Alkatiri.
[18] Magno is fluent in Tetum, Portuguese, Makasae (a Papuan language spoken in her native municipality of Baucau), Indonesian, and English.