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Vol 66 No 9

Published 2nd May 2025


Angola

Vera Daves de Sousa, Angola’s trailblazer

Finance Minister Vera Daves de Sousa was one of the few African star turns at April’s spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, despite her government being shut out of the international markets. Still only in her early 40s, De Sousa is a seasoned veteran of the Finance Ministry and a respected technocrat. Now in her sixth year as minister, she previously served as a senior official in the Treasury before being appointed to the role by President João Lourenço in October 2019.

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