Maria do Carmo Trovoada Pires de Carvalho Silveira (born 14 February 1961) served as the 13th
prime minister of São Tomé and Príncipe
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from 8 June 2005 to 21 April 2006.
Background
She was educated as an economist at the
Donetsk National University
Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University (Vasyl' Stus DonNU) ( uk, Донецький національний університет імені Василя Стуса, ''Donets’kyi Natsional’nyi Universytet''; russian: Донецкий на ...
(
Ukraine
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), Master of Public Administration from the
National School of Administration in
Strasbourg and was the third governor of
São Tomé and Príncipe's Central Bank from 1999 to 2005, she succeeded Carlos Quaresma Batista de Sousa and was succeeded by Arlindo Afonso Carvalho
and again from 2011 to 2016 as the sixth governor succeeding Luís Fernando Moreira de Sousa.
Prime minister
She served as
Prime Minister
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and Minister of Planning and Finance
São Tomé and Príncipe from 8 June 2005 to 21 April 2006.
Silveira, the country's second female Prime Minister, is a member of the
Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe-Social Democratic Party (MLSTP-PSD) and was a member of the party executive board.
Silveira declared that macroeconomic stability was her priority and made her mark by among others resolving the wage dispute with the unions in the public sector, securing assistance from the IMF and obtaining an agreement with Angola on cooperation in the oil sector.
[Skard, Torild (2014) "Maria do Carmo Silveira" in ''Women of power female presidents and prime ministers worldwide'', Bristol: Policy Press, , pp. 300-01]
Succession
Her term as Prime Minister ended after the
2006 parliamentary elections, when the opposition defeated the MLSTP-PSD,
and she was succeeded as Prime Minister by
Tomé Vera Cruz in 2006.
Executive Secretary of the
CPLP
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In January 2017, Maria do Carmo assumed the position of
Executive Secretary of the Lusophone Commonwealth, succeeding the
Mozambican Murade Murargy and being succeeded by the
Portuguese
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Francisco Ribeiro Telles in January 2019.
See also
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Politics of São Tomé and Príncipe
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Executive Secretaries of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries
1960 births
Women rulers in Africa
Government ministers of São Tomé and Príncipe
Living people
Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe/Social Democratic Party politicians
Women government ministers of São Tomé and Príncipe
Women prime ministers
21st-century women politicians
Female finance ministers
Central bankers
21st-century São Tomé and Príncipe politicians