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List of Fellows:

Ghana Class
Mozambique Class
East Africa Class
South Africa Inaugural Class
South Africa Kahllipha Class
South Africa Kilimanjaro Class
West Africa Class
South Africa Seriti Class

 
_ Mozambique Class*
 

*Photo does not include all Fellows
     
 

Maria dos Anjos do Rosário

Maria dos Anjos do Rosário, is an Architect/Urban Regional Planner and Civil Mining Engineer. President of the Mozambican Association for Urban Development, and has an Advanced Certificate in Development Management from the University of Witswatersrand/Faculty of Management. She has experience of teaching, setting up a national subsystem of Technical Education and vocational training and working with the Communities (rural and periurban) in participatory development programs, empowering people to create wealth and achieve better conditions of life. e is a member of the Maputo Municipal Assembly through a civic group “Together for the city) and promoted cultural programs of pottery, painting, drawing, theatre, to various youth and women groups, including the Catholic Girl Scouts.

Roberto Armando

Roberto Armando is Coordinator of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s LeaRN program (Leadership Regional Network), an initiative that aims to build the capacity of leaders at local, provincial, national, regional and global levels, and to increase community voices in the policy development process as well as to strengthen young leaders for the 21st Century. Previously he worked as a Training Officer for MS Mozambique (Danish Association for International Cooperation Mozambique), where his responsibilities included developing the organization’s training policy, ensuring its implementation and involving the organization’s major partners. Roberto also has experience coordinating and counseling integrated educational programmes, promoting rural extension services and income generating activities and building organizational capacity.

Álvaro Casimiro

Álvaro Casimiro, is the Coordinator of LINK an association of more than 200 NGO’s operating in Mozambique. His carrier has focused on training and the media, raging from literacy campaigns and radio programming to management consulting. He has held a variety of leadership positions in Mozambican civil society over the past 25 years.

 

Paula Ferreira

Paula Ferreira, has been the Managing Director Partner of Deloitte Touche in Mozambique since 2000. Trained as an Auditor, she was previously with Ernest & Young in Maputo, and owned and managed her own audit firm Sisteconta Lda from 1988 to 1992.

 

Wyona Ferreira
Wyona Ferreira, is the Commercial Director of JOACO Cimentos Internacional. Previously she served first as Group Accountant, then as Sales Manager and finally as General Manager of the Tannous Group of companies involved in mining, motor trade and fuel retailing. Was a founding member of Chairpeson of Financial Board, Igreja Immanuel presently founding member of New Life Christian Center Mozambique Board Member and specialize counselor.

Jamu Hassan

Jamu Hassan is Owner and Chairman of Mopac Holdings, a privately held company that invests in over 20 companies representing a variety of industries in Mozambique. Over the last ten years, Jamu has also served on the boards of several companies, such as Carmoc - Cartonagens de Moçambique, Mogás - Sociedade Moçambicana de Gás and Schweppes Mozambique. In the past, he has also consulted for multilateral agencies such as the World Bank and Norway’s NORAD.

Jamu most recently received an MBA from London’s Imperial College Management School at London University.

Juma
Juma

Juma Juma, is a self-employed Consultant of forestry and forest products and was recently General Manager of Serracões Reunidas, a logging, timber transport and Sawmill Company in Zambézia. He has a BSc in Forestry and Forest Products from the University College of North Wales, and a Diploma in Forest Harvesting and Forest Products from Skogsbruksskola, Sodra Viken in Sweden.

 

Benvinda Levy
Benvinda Levy is the Chairperson Judge for the Third Civil Section of the Maputo City Judicial Court. Since 1999, she has been a Member of the Sub-Commission of Legal Reform for Family Law and Successions. Previously, she served as the District Judicial Magistrate for the Second Section of the Judicial Court in Urban District #1. Since 1990, Maria has taught in Faculties of Law (UEM, ISCTEM and ISPU), covering subjects such as Civil Process, Family Law and Successions.

Benvinda received her license in Law from Eduardo Mondlane University. She has been a regular contributor to Jornal Savana, and has chaired the Mozambican Association of Women in Law.

Maria Luísa Mathe

Maria Luísa Mathe, is the Deputy Coordinator for Employee Development for Financial Management Reform in the Government of Mozambique. She was previously Manager of Human Resources and training at the Ministry of Planning and Finance. She has a degree in Mathematics and Physics Education from Eduardo Mondlane University and Master’s Degree in Human Resource Development from University of Manchester.

 

Quessanias Matsombe

Quessanias Matsombe, is the Owner/Manager of Complexo Humula, a tourist facility in the Bilene District of Gaza Province. He was previously a senior manager at BP Mozambique and Shell Mozambique. He has studied Management in Zimbabwe, London and Lisbon.

Carlos Mesquita

Carlos Mesquita, is the Managing Director of Cornelder of Mocambique, a private company that manages the Port of Beira, including stevedoring, ship operations, and warehousing, collateral management and transport logistics management. He has a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Postgraduate Degree in Port and Shipping Management from the International Maritime Transport Academy in the Netherlands. Since 1998 is also the Honorary Consul for Netherlands in Mozambique (Central and Northern part).

 

Leontina dos Muchangos
Leontina dos Muchangos is the National Director of Women within the Ministry of Women and Coordination of Social Affairs. She is also Project Director of the “Gender Equity and Empowerment of Women” project, and is involved in a partnership project between the government, NGOs and the United Nations Fund for Population Activities. She was previously a training officer for the Women’s Forum. She has been a Member of the Policy Advisory Board of MS Denmark (1997 – 1999), and served as Chairperson in 1999. Leotina graduated from Pedagogical University with a degree in Geography.
Filipe Nhussi
Since 1995, Filipe Nhussi has served as Executive Director for Northern Mozambique Railways. He is also a Lecturer of the Logic and Theory Complex at Nampula’s Pedagogic University. Filipe is a Member of the Higher Education Nucleus in Nampula, and is very interested in helping to promote academics in northern Mozambique.

Filipe received his License in Mechanical Engineering in Czechoslovakia, and has received additional training on railway and port management in the U.S., Swaziland and South Africa. He has also participated in management training courses in the U.K. and India. Filipe was President of the “Clube Ferroviário de Nampula” from 1993 to 2002.

A. Romeu Rodrigues
A. Romeu Rodrigues, is the Managing Director of CETA Construcão e Servicos, where he led a management buy-out and privatization of the company in 1999 and where the majority owned by Mozambicans managers and workers and the balance by a venture capital fund. He is a leader in the business community response to HIV/AIDS, and on issued of corporate governance in Mozambique.
Baptista Salomão

Baptista Salomão, after holding various management positions is accounting, services and industrial firms between 1975 and 1981 and teaching Economics, Management and Business Administration 1979 to 1983 and the Commercial School of Maputo, Salomão acquired Casa de Fatos de Baptista Salomão Francisco a clothing store. He managed the company between 1981 and 1986 and then successfully transformed it into Baptista Salomão & Cia Lda, a manufacture of PVC products and polypropilene woven bags where he is presently Partner and General Manager. He has degrees in Economics and Management from Eduardo Mondlane University and a Master’s Degree in Financial Economics from London University.

 

Carlota Natália Salomão

Carlota Natália Salomão, is the Technical and Production Manager of the paint manufacturer “New Tintas 2000, Lda”. She has a degree in Chemical Engineering from Eduardo Mondlane University and a Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University.

 

Mário Ussene

Mário Ussene, is the General Director of the Center for Arbitration, Conciliation and Mediation. He was previously a Director of ENACOMO Group, and Owner/Manager of several companies, including Empresa Jaime Inácio Vassalo, Empresa ArtAfrica, Casa do Funcionário, and ALADIN. He is a Founding Member of the Confederation of Economic Associations of Mozambique (similar to the Chamber of Commerce) where he also severed as President, and Etica Mozambique (a corruption watch-dog organization).

 

Alberto Vaquina
Alberto Vaquina is a medical doctor and the Director of Health for the Province of Nampula. He received his medical training in Portugal in 1992 and has held a series of positions of increasing responsibility in rural medical services in Nampula. He has advanced degrees in Health Management in Developing Countries and in Tropical Diseases from the University of Bordeaux and the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, respectively. He is a published author of two books of fictional shorts and he was the President of the Association for the Development of Nampula.
Gomes
Zita

Gomes Zita, is the Deputy Managing Director for Operations of Telecomunicacoes de Mocambique and a Member of the Board of Directors. He is also a member of the National Commission for Information and Communication Technologies Policy. He is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from the Higher Institute of Aeronautic Engineering of Kiev in the Ukraine. He spent several years in the Air Force where he headed communications and electrical engineering directovate and has been a lecturer at the Faculties of Science and of Engineering at Eduardo Mondlane University.

     
Terry
Behan

Terry Behan is Managing Director of The Fearless Executive, a brand integration agency. The Fearless Executive specializes in assisting companies to develop their brands internally. Terry lived and worked in Ireland, England, Greece and Germany, before moving and settling in South Africa in 1994 in order to experience, observe and contribute to the foundations of the social, democratic and economic processes that make up the new South Africa. He has worked extensively in both the public and private sectors in South Africa, Mozambique and East Africa. Terry is also a fellow of the African Leadership Initiative as well as a director of The African Eagles Program, a youth leadership development program and is a regular contributor in the print media on the topic of brand development.

Mbongeni Mtshali

Mbongeni Lawrence Mtshali is a small business sector practitioner with over 10 years experience in programme design, implementation and evaluation. Mbongeni’s professional experience within the small enterprise development sector is wide and varied covering grassroots programme implementation (advise to SMMEs) as well as regional and national programme leadership positions in both the business development services and micro finance. He has previously worked for NICRO and Ntsika Enterprise Promotion Agency. Mbongeni is currently engaged by Umsobomvu Youth Fund as Head of Division for Youth Entrepreneurship and Director for Business Development Services. Over the last year Mbongeni and his team launched a first market development approach business development services voucher programme in South Africa. This voucher programme is only the second in Africa and the only the first electronic system of its type in the world. In 1994 Mbongeni was seconded by NICRO to the Independent Electoral Commission as a National Coordinator responsible for special votes in prisons during South Africa’s first democratic elections.

Mbongeni holds and Bachelor of Law degree from the University of South Africa and is currently in process of completing his Masters in Business Administration with the University of Free State. Mbongeni has also attended numerous local and overseas short-term courses in SMME Development including training on the new Market Development Approach to Business Development Services in Glasgow, UK by the highly acclaimed Springfield Centre for Developing Business.

Mbongeni has held non-executive board directorships at the Western Cape Manufacturing Advice Centre (Cape MAC) and Enterprise South Africa Foundation (ESAF) a Section 21 company that has a licence to implement the United Nation Development Programme’s EMPRETECH Programme in South Africa.

 
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