Esperança Maria Eduardo Francisco da Costa is an

Angola , national_anthem = " Angola Avante"() , image_map = , map_caption = , capital = Luanda , religion = , religion_year = 2020 , religion_ref = , coordina ...

biologist A biologist is a scientist who conducts research in biology. Biologists are interested in studying life on Earth, whether it is an individual Cell (biology), cell, a multicellular organism, or a Community (ecology), community of Biological inter ...

, university researcher-teacher and

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.Costa, Esperança Maria Eduardo Francisco da (1961-)
JSTOR Global Plants. 2000. She was deputy list head of the

Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( pt, Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, Abbreviation, abbr. MPLA), for some years called the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola – Labour Party (), is an Angolan left-wi ...

(MPLA) party for the

2022 Angolan general election General elections were held in Angola on 24 August 2022 to elect the President and National Assembly. Incumbent president João Lourenço was eligible for one more term. The MPLA was re-elected with a reduced majority, winning 124 seats with 51 ...

s. With the party's victory,CNE angolana divulga resultados definitivos e proclama João Lourenço como Presidente de Angola
Observador. 29 de agosto de 2022. she became vice president of Angola on 15 September 2022.Investidura do Presidente da República
Rádio Nacional de Angola. 15 de setembro de 2022.

Biography

Esperança da Costa was born in

Luanda Luanda () is the Capital (political), capital and largest city in Angola. It is Angola's primary port, and its major Angola#Economy, industrial, Angola#Culture, cultural and Angola#Demographics, urban centre. Located on Angola's northern Atl ...

, Angola, in 3 May 1961. In her youth, during the country's decolonization process, she was part of the Youth Movement of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (JMPLA) and the Organization of Angolan Women (OMA).Esperança da Costa: "As mulheres estão prontas para os desafios"
Jornal de Angola. 4 de junho de 2022. She studied biology at

Agostinho Neto University The Agostinho Neto University ( pt, Universidade Agostinho Neto) is the largest public university of Angola, based in Luanda and in the nearby city of Talatona, in Angola. In the academic year 2005–06, 68 licensing courses were ministered b ...

(UAN), graduating in 1985. Between 1983-1984 he specialized at the Botany Center of the Tropical Scientific Research Institute in Lisbon, Portugal. When she returned to Luanda, she was appointed assistant in plant biology at Agostinho Neto University, becoming head of the biology department in 1986. Between 1986 and 1990, she was responsible for the development of the Luanda Herbarium. In 1990, she began her master's degree in plant productivity at the

Technical University of Lisbon The Technical University of Lisbon (UTL; pt, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, ) was a Portuguese public university. It was created in 1930 in Lisbon, as a confederation of preexisting schools, and comprised the faculties and institutes of vete ...

, followed, in 1992, to a doctorate in phytoecology at the same university, completed in 1997. Upon returning to Angola, she was readmitted as a professor at Agostinho Neto University, becoming director of the Luanda Herbarium and assistant professor of plant biology."Ilustre desconhecida" é candidata do MPLA a vice-Presidente
DW. 24 de maio de 2022. She then became vice-director of Scientific Affairs and, from 2002, vice-rector for University Expansion at UAN (position held until 2007). Between 2007 and 2010, she became National Director of the Expansion of Higher Education at the Ministry of Higher Education, a period in which Angola strongly expands the education offer, with the construction of campuses and new higher education institutions throughout the national territory. She becomes director of the UAN Botany Center between 2010 and 2020. 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. She contested and won the

s as deputy head of the MPLA list. She took over as Vice-President of Angola on 15 September 2022.

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