CONFERENCE

Speakers’ Bios Notas biográficas

Speakers : : Oradores Session 1

THE CRISIS :: A CRISE

Hélder Oliveira é Presidente do CA da SPE-Sociedade Portuguesa de Empreendimentos,

Administrador Executivo da Fundação Portugal-África e não executivo da AMSCO – African

Management Services (Amsterdão) e membro da Mesa da AG da Ordem dos Economistas depois de

ter sido membro da Direcção da mesma Ordem. Tem participado regularmente em diversos grupos

de trabalho e feito intervenções públicas sobre políticas de internacionalização das empresas

portuguesas. Exerceu vários cargos no sector financeiro: Presidente da Comissão Executiva da SOFID

Sociedade para o Financiamento do Desenvolvimento – IFC, SA (EDFI -European Development

Finance Institution); Director Central do Banco BPI (Gabinete para Angola); Director Coordenador do

Banco de Fomento e Exterior – (Área Internacional) e Administrador da EURO-FINANCEIRA –

Sociedade de Investimentos, SA. Foi ainda Presidente do Conselho de Administração da Companhia

Carris de Ferro de Lisboa e administrador de várias empresas, designadamente, nos sectores do

comércio externo e da comunicação social. Hélder Oliveira é Licenciado em Economia pelo Instituto

Superior de Ciências Económicas e Financeiras da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa.

Adebayo Olukoshi, from Nigeria, is the Director of the UN African Institute for Economic

Development and Planning (IDEP)and Executive Director of the Africa Governance Institute (AGI),in

Dakar. Before, he was the Executive Secretary of the Council for the Development of Social Science

Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Director of research at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs

and Senior Research Fellow at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden. He served for one year

as Professional Staff responsible for the development of the Africa programme at The South Centre,

in Geneva, Switzerland, and holds a PhD on Politics from the University of Leeds.

Damien Helly has joined the College of Europe to teach Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP),

as a visiting professor in Bruges. Between 2008 and 2012, he was senior research fellow at the EU

Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), an EU intergovernmental agency acting in the framework of the

Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), where he dealt with Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe-Africa

relations, and CSDP. In 2013-2014, he will also be an independent expert of a consortium led by the

Goethe Institute to research on the external dimensions of EU’s cultural policies. Damien was senior

analyst and head of the International Crisis Group office in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (2006-2007). He also

opened and managed Crisis Group’s first regional South Caucasus office in 2003-2004 as project

director before working as a consultant on Moldova/Transdniestria for the same organisation. In

2005-2006, Damien opened and ran Saferworld’s EU and advocacy office in Brussels. He holds a PhD

in political science from Sciences po, Paris. He is currently writing a book entitled Why Africa matters

and how Europeans should act strategically.

Fernando Jorge Cardoso is the research coordinator of the Instituto Marquês de Valle Flôr Think

Tank, IMVF, in Lisbon. He is also member of the Institute for International and Strategic Studies, IEEI,

and a senior researcher at the Centre of African Studies at the Lisbon University Institute, ISCTE.

Currently, on behalf of IEEI, he chairs the Steering Committee of the Europe-Africa Policy Research

Network, EARN. His main fields of interest are development, regional integration and international

relations with a major focus in Sub-Saharan Africa. He holds a PhD in Economics by the Technical

University of Lisbon.

Session 2

DEMOGRAPHIC CHALLENGES :: DESAFIOS DEMOGRÁFICOS

Mónica Ferro é Deputada à Assembleia da República e Membro efetivo da Comissão de Negócios

Estrangeiros (coordenadora do Grupo Parlamentar do PSD) e Comissão de Defesa Nacional. É

Membro suplente da Comissão de Assuntos Constitucionais, Direitos, Liberdades e Garantias,

Membro da Subcomissão da Igualdade, e Coordenadora do Grupo Parlamentar Português sobre

População e Desenvolvimento. É Membro do Comité Executivo do Fórum Europeu de Parlamentares

para a População e Desenvolvimento. É também Docente do Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e

Políticas, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa e Docente Convidada do Instituto da Defesa Nacional, da

Academia da Força Aérea, da Academia Militar. É Licenciada e Mestre em Relações Internacionais,

pelo ISCSP, e Doutoranda em Relações Internacionais pelo ISCSP.

Alcinda Honwana is a visiting professor at the Open University (OU) in the UK and at Columbia

University in New York. She has been chair and director of the International Development Centre

(IDC) at the OU; director of programs at the Social Science Research Council in New York; and

research coordinator in the United Nations Office of the Special Representative for Children and

Armed Conflict. She lectured Anthropology at the Universities Eduardo Mondlane, University of Cape

Town and the New School University in New York. Honwana has written extensively on the links

between political conflict and culture, the impact of conflict on young people, and the role of young

people and social change in Africa. Her publications include: Youth and Revolution in Tunisia

(forthcoming July 2013) Zed Books, London; The Time of Youth: Work, Social Change and Politics in

Africa, (2012) Kumarian Press USA, Child Soldiers in Africa, (2006), University of Pennsylvania Press,

USA; Makers & Breakers: Children and Youth in Postcolonial Africa, (2005, co-edited), James Currey

Publishers, UK; and Living Spirits, Modern Traditions: Spirit Possession and Post-War Healing in

Southern Mozambique, (2003) Ela Por Ela, Lisbon; and (2002) Promedia, Maputo.

Ana Pires de Carvalho é Demógrafa e tem trabalhado como consultora em Moçambique, Angola e

Sudão, para a UNFPA, UNOCHA, UNICEF e Banco Mundial. Previamente leccionou e dirigiu

Faculdades na Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM), Moçambique. Licenciou-se em Matemática

Aplicada e Informática pela UEM e concluiu o Mestrado de Investigação Operacional em

Southampton, UK. Posteriormente especializou-se em demografia, tendo feito uma pós-graduação

de um ano em Princeton, USA, e o doutoramento em Southampton, UK. Actualmente é investigadora

sénior do Centro de Analise de Politicas (CAP) da Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, em Maputo.

Gregory De Paepe, a Belgian national, joined the Development Centre of OECD, in Paris, as a policy

analyst in the Europe, Middle East and Africa desk in November 2008. He has contributed to the

several thematic chapters of the Development Centre’s annual flagship publication, the African

Economic Outlook (AEO) and has been the AEO project coordinator since 2010. His main areas of

work are development economics, macro-economics and public finances, with a regional

specialisation on Africa. Prior to joining the Development Centre he has been working at the Spanish

Delegation to the WTO and UNCTAD in Geneva, where he covered the DOHA round negotiations and

the preparatory committee for UNCTAD’s XII Ministerial Conference. Gregory holds a Master degree

in International Trade at the Centro de Estudios Comerciales y Economicos in Madrid and a Master

degree in Business Economics with a major in Finance at the University of Ghent, Belgium.

Victor Ângelo, a Portuguese national, is a Former Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary-

General (Peacekeeping Operations, 2004-10), at the level of Under Secretary-General. He retired

from the UN in April 2010, as SRSG for MINURCAT (CAR and Chad), after 32 years of work with

different departments of the organization. As part of his career, he represented the UN in many

countries, as resident coordinator for development, as well as humanitarian coordinator and envoy

for post-conflict situations. Prior to his UN work, he was a senior civil servant in the Portuguese

government and a commissioner of National Electoral Commission which organised the

Constitutional elections of 1975. He is currently a senior international advisor on governance, crisis

management and security. He is also a recognised columnist on world affairs of Visão, the largest

Portuguese weekly magazine, a board member of the PeaceNexus Foundation (Switzerland) as well

as a member of the North-South Centre’s Think Tank in the Council of Europe and other research

centres. He has written several academic papers and many weekly opinion columns.

Session 3

SECURITY :: SEGURANÇA

Santiago Martínez-Caro de la Concha-Castañeda. Nació el 28 de enero de 1957 en Nueva York. Segunda Jefatura en la Embajada en Yaundé desde 18 de abril de 1984 y Cónsul de España en Lima desde 4 de julio de 1986. Secretario en la Representación Permanente de España en el Consejo de Europa, Estrasburgo, desde 9 de mayo de 1989. Consejero de Embajada en comisión el 8 de abril de 1992. Consejero Técnico Relaciones Exteriores Países no Preferentes desde 1 de agosto de 1992. Vocal Asesor de la Subdirección General de Coordinación Comunitaria para Asuntos Jurídicos desde 2 de agosto de 1993.-Subdirector General Adjunto de Coordinación Comunitaria para Asuntos Técnicos desde 1 de enero de 1994. Consejero Económico y Comercial, Jefe de la Oficina Comercial de la Embajada de España en Rabat, desde 1 de septiembre de 1994. Cónsul General de España en Caracas desde 14 de abril de 1998. Vocal Asesor en la Dirección General de Política Exterior para el Mediterráneo desde 31 de julio de 2001. Subdirector General de África Subsahariana desde 10 de enero de 2003. Embajador de España en la República de Zimbabwe desde 1 de octubre de 2004. Embajador de España en la República de Malawi, con residencia en Harare desde 26 de septiembre de 2005. Embajador de España en la República de Zambia, con residencia en Harare, desde 26 de septiembre de 2005. Segunda Jefatura en la Representación Permanente de España ante la ONU, Viena, desde 20 de abril de 2009.

Alexandra Magnólia Dias é licenciada em Relações Internacionais-Ramo Culturais e Políticas pela

Universidade do Minho. É mestre em Desenvolvimento Económico e Social em África : Análise e

Gestão pelo Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa- ISCTE com uma tese intitulada

«Ensaio sobre os Alinhamentos Partidários no Botswana». É Doutorada em Relações Internacionais

pela London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) com uma tese intitulada "Uma Guerra

Inter-Estatal no Pós-Guerra Fria: Eritreia-Etiópia 1998-2000", a qual recebeu menção honrosa do júri

da 2.ª edição do Prémio da Associação Portuguesa de Ciência Política (APCP). É actualmente

Investigadora auxiliar do Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) no Centro de Estudos Africanos

onde coordena o projecto «Monitorização de Conflitos no Corno de África». É Professora Auxiliar

Convidada no Departamento de História na mesma instituição.

João Bernardo Honwana (colonel, retired, Mozambique) is the director of the Africa II Division in the

UN Department of Political Affairs since May 2012. He has served the UN as director of the Africa I

Division, chief of staff of the UN Mission in Sudan, representative of the secretary-general and head

of the UN Peacebuilding Support Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNGBIS), and chief of the Conventional

Arms Branch in the Department for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA). Prior to joining the UN, Honwana

was a senior researcher and project coordinator at the Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of

Cape Town, South Africa, from June 1993 to January 2000. He participated in Mozambique’s national

liberation struggle and, after independence, served in various capacities in the armed forces,

including as commander of the Mozambican Air Force and Air Defence from 1986 to 1993. Honwana

trained as a fighter pilot and military aviation tactical commander in the former Soviet Union (1977–

80, 1982–83), graduated from the UK Royal College of Defence Studies (1990), and holds an MA in

war studies (1992) from Kings College London.

Maurice Engueleguele is Professor of Political Science (PhD) and has taught for twenty years in

French universities (Amiens, Bordeaux) and Cameroon (International Relations Institute). He also

served as Head of Project in Governance Mission of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Maurice

Engueleguele is the Programme Coordinator of the Africa Governance Institute, in Dakar, since May

2008. He has published several works on political behavior, political development and political

participation issues.

Morten Bøås, PhD is a senior researcher at Fafo’s Institute for Applied International Studies. He has

written extensively on African politics and development. His work has appeared in a number of

leading international journals, including among others Journal of Modern African Studies, Politique

Africaine, Third World Quarterly, Global Governance, European Journal of Development Research,

Globalizations and Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. He has also published a number of

books, including the much-cited African Guerrillas: Raging against the Machine (Lynne Rienner,

2007), co-edited with Kevin Dunn, International Development Vol. I.IV (Sage, 2010), co-edited with

Benedicte Bull and The Politics of Origin in Africa (Zed Books, forthcoming 2013), co-authored with

Kevin Dunn.

Session 4

DEVELOPMENT FLOWS AND ACTORS :: FLUXOS E ATORES DO DESENVOLVIMENTO

Any Freitas holds a M.A. in International Relations (PUC -Rio de Janeiro Catholic University) and a

PhD in Social and Political Sciences (European University Institute, Florence). She was visiting

researcher at Instituto Juan March (2006), and the Centre March Bloch (2007), and worked in

different organizations such as UNESCO (2008-2009), the Council of the European Union (2009), the

Free University of Brussels (2009-2010). Since 2011, Any works at the European Union Institute for

Security Studies (EU-ISS), in Paris, currently as Senior Programme Manager of the “Observatoire de

l’Afrique”.

Ana Paula Fernandes é Licenciada em Relações Internacionais pela Universidade do Minho, Mestre

em Cooperação Internacional pelo ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, e Doutoranda em

Assuntos Africanos no mesmo Instituto. Foi voluntária dos Leigos para o Desenvolvimento em

Moçambique (1994-1995) ; Assessora do Conselho Administração QBO Trading (1996-1997);

Investigadora do Instituto de Estudos Estratégicos Internacionais (1997-1999); Responsável de

Projectos de Cooperação para o Desenvolvimento no Instituto Marquês de Valle Flôr (1999-2005);

Professora Universitária convidada (até 2009); e Assessora do Secretário de Estado dos Negócios

Estrangeiros e da Cooperação (2005-2009). Atualmente é Conselheira Técnica na Delegação

Permanente de Portugal junto da Organização de Cooperação e Desenvolvimento Económico, desde

2009, tendo assumido a vice-presidência do Comité de Ajuda ao Desenvolvimento (CAD) desde

Janeiro de 2010. É também co-presidente do Grupo de Trabalho sobre Investimento e

Desenvolvimento da OCDE – AGID, desde 2012.

Diogo Gomes de Araújo is the CEO of SOFID, the Portuguese Development Financial Institution since

May 2010. Before that, Diogo was an Adviser to the Supervisory Board of EDP, the Portuguese

electricity utility, Head of the Portuguese Business Development Agency responsible for promoting

investment and trade in Tunisia and Libya, Portuguese Representative at the African Development

Bank and Adviser to the Board of Directors the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Diogo has degrees in Economics and International Affairs by the University of Minho, Portugal, a

Master in International Banking and Finance by the London Metropolitan University and has also

studied International Trade in Vigo, Spain.

Erik Lundsgaarde is a Senior Researcher at the German Development Institute (DIE), Bonn, where his

work focuses on the diversification of the actor landscape in development cooperation. He is the

editor of the book Africa toward 2030: Challenges for Development Policy (Palgrave Macmillan) and

the author of The Domestic Politics of Foreign Aid (Routledge). He received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in

Political Science from the University of Washington, USA.

Tetteh Hormeku-Ajei is Head of Programmes at Third World Network-Africa based in Ghana.Tetteh

has a Master of Laws degree in International Economic Law and for two decades has been involved in

research and advocacy on key policy issues relating to international trade, finance, investment and

the challenges facing African economies.

Panel

THE FUTURE :: O FUTURO

Geert Laporte, a Belgian national, is Deputy Director at The European Centre for Development

Policy Management (ECDPM), in Maastricht/Brussels. He has worked for ECDPM since 1990 in

different roles and functions. Currently he is responsible for ECDPM’s relations with the EU

institutions, EU Presidencies, EU member states, and with the African Union, the ACP institutions

and with a large network of partners of the Centre in different parts of the world. His thematic

areas of specialisation include: EU external action and development policy, the Cotonou

Partnership Agreement and the Joint Africa-EU Strategy with a particular focus on governance,

political cooperation and regional integration.

Alex Vines is the Research Director at Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs,

London) since September 2008 and has run its Africa programme since 2002. He was Chair of the UN

Group of Experts on Côte d’Ivoire from 2005 to 2007 and was a member of the UN Group of Experts

on Liberia from 2001 to 2003. For nine years he was a senior researcher at the Arms and Africa

Divisions of Human Rights Watch working on Angola until 2002. He sits on several academic editorial

boards including the South Africa Journal of International Affairs and was awarded an OBE in the

2008 Queens Birthday Honours for his work on Africa.

John Kayode Shinkaiye, a retired Nigerian career diplomat, who served his country for more than 35

years, has just left the service of the Commission of the African Union, where he was, for six years

and nine months (February 2006 to October 2012), the Chief of Staff of the AU Commission

Chairperson. Throughout that period he was the AUC Co-Chair of the AUC-EC Joint Task Force and

played a key role in developing the partnership between Africa and the EU. Married to Mrs. Agnes

Shinkaiye, and father of five children and two grandsons, Amb. Shinkaiye served his country in many

capacities. He served in the Nigerian Missions in Lome, Togo, London (twice), Dakar, Senegal and was

Nigerian Ambassador to Equitorial Guinea (1989 to 1993), Ethiopia and Djibouti and was the Nigerian

Permanent Representative to the OAU/AU and UNECA (2000 to 2003). Amb. Shinkaiye has authored

several articles and was honoured by Britain (LVO) in 1989; Equatorial Guinea (GCOI) in 1993 and his

country (OFR) in 2001. He is a Member of the Nigerian National Institute for Policy and Strategic

Studies for which he was awarded the certificate, mni, in 1994. He is in the process of setting up a

consulting firm to be based in Abuja, Nigeria.

Thomas Lawo is the Executive Secretary of EADI (European Association of Development Research

and Training Institutes) and Director of the international secretariat in Bonn/ Germany, since January

2000. From 1986 until November 1990 he was resident representative of the Konrad-Adenauer-

Foundation in Malaysia and Visiting Research Fellow at the Asian and Pacific Development Centre

(APDC) in Kuala Lumpur and Associate Fellow at the Institute for Development Studies, (IDS) Sabah in

Kota Kinabalu/ Malaysia. He has worked in development co-operation since 1978 as Project Officer

for South Asia (1978-86), Head of Asia Department (1990-94) and Managing Director of MISEREOR,

Central Agency for Development Assistance, Aachen/Germany (1995-99). He has concluded Studies

of Law at Bochum University (1972-74), Agriculture and Nutrition Sciences at Bonn University 1974-

78; additional studies of Philosophy and Education Sciences (1976-78) ; and post-graduate studies in

Agricultural Sociology and Nutrition Sciences and doctoral Dissertation (PhD) in 1983 on Agriculture

and Food Policy Issues in Banglad0.esh. He has participated in various publications on nutrition and

food policy issues, poverty alleviation programmes, work of NGOs and Civil Society organizations,

especially on participatory approaches and management issues in development cooperation

programmes and planning; policies of European Development Co-operation.