Cristina Duarte

Her father Manuel Duarte was a Freedom Fighter in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.

[5] Later, the Carnation Revolution of April 25, 1974 took place which ended the Portuguese dictatorial regime of Estado Novo.

Duarte served as director general of the Bureau of Studies of the planning of the Ministry of Agricultural Development from 1986 to 1991.

In the early 1990s, she lived in the USA and got her MBA in the area of World Finances and Emerging Capital Markets at the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona.

[13][14] Duarte currently serves as a member of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration and High-Level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs, President Paul Kagame’s Advisory Committee on African Union Reforms, the Board of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and the Board of the Institute of African Leadership for Sustainable Development at the UONGOZI Institute.