João Lopes Filho (born c. 1943) is a Cape Verdean anthropologist, historian, university professor, novelist and an investigator.
He is a teacher at the University of Cape Verde (Uni-CV), he heads the João Lopes Foundation on Arts and Literature and the Capeverdean Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
[3] After completing his studies, he went to become a professor at what was Cape Verde's higher institute of education that is now categorized as a college or a collegiate in Cape Verde in the 1980s, Escola de Formação de Professores e Educadores do Ensino Secundário (EFPES) which is now the Uni-CV's Institute of Higher Education (Instituto Superior de Educação, ISE), he took part in a development commission for Uni-CV.
[7][8] In January 2014, he was named by the Capeverdean Minister of Education for heading the electoral process for its first rectoral elections for Uni-CV.
[9] Alongside with Jorge Sousa Brito, former rector of the Jean Piaget University of Cape Verde in 2015, he founded the Capeverdean Academy of Sciences and Humanities.