Esperança Maria Eduardo Francisco da Costa (born 3 May 1961) is an Angolan biologist, university researcher-teacher and politician who is currently serving as the fourth vice president of Angola since 15 September 2022.

[1] She was the deputy head of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) party for the 2022 Angolan general elections.

Between 1983 and 1984, she specialized at the Botany Center of the Tropical Scientific Research Institute in Lisbon, Portugal.

[6] She was elected to the Central Committee of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in 2019, being appointed by President João Lourenço as Secretary of State of Fishing in 2020.

[6] She contested and won the 2022 Angolan general elections as the running mate of João Lourenço.