Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
Female Ministers of
Cape
Verde Islands/Ilhas de Cabo Verde (Female Suffrage 1975) Portuguese Colony ca.
1460-1975, Independent 1975, in an Union with Guinea Bissau till 1980
See
also Capo Verde Parliament
1991-93
Secretary of State for Fisheries
1993-94 Minister for Fisheries, Agriculture and Rural Development
1993-97 Minister Coordinator of CILSS
1995-98 Minister of the Sea
1998-2001 Minister of Tourism and Transport and Marine Affairs Dr. Maria Helena
Nobre de Morais Querido Semedo
(b. 1959-)
1992-93
Secretary of State for Social Affairs and Youth Dr. Odina Maria Fonesca Rodrigues
Ferreira
1993-94 Minister of Culture and Communication
1994-96 Minister of Public Administration and Parliamentary Affairs
1995-96 Minister of Education and Sports
First Vice-President of the Assemblia Nacional 1996-2001.
1993-ca.
96 Permanent Undersecretary in the Office of the President Manuela Monteiro
1996-98
Secretary of State for Administration and Administrative Reform Dr. Ana Paula Almieda
1998-99 Secretary of State of Employment, Training and Social Integration
1999-2001 Secretary of State of Public Administration
1996-98
Secretary of State for Social Promotion Dr. Manuela Teresa
de Jesus Alves Silva Gomes
1998-2001 Secretary of State for the Fight Against Poverty
(b. 1956-)
1998-2001 Minister of Employment, Training and Social Integration Dr. Orlanda
Maria Durate Santos Ferreira
(b. 1959)
1999-01 Secretary of State for the Communities/Capverdians Abroad Marly de
Meneses Barbosa-Vincente
Consular postings since the 1960s, Consul General in Rotterdam 1991-96,
Ambassador to Denmark, Estonia, Finland Iceland, Norway and Sweden and the
Netherlands 1996-99. (b. 1938-)
2000-01 Minister of Justice and Internal Administration Januária Tavares
Silva Mareira da Costa
(b. 1963-)
2000-01 Adjunct Secretary of State for the Minister of Education, Science, Youth
and Sports Filomena Maria Frederico Delgado Silva
Secretary General of the Ministry 1997-2000. (b. 1954-)
2001-06 Minister of Justice
Maria Cristina Lopes Almeida Fontes Lima
2002-04 Minister of Interior
2004-06 Minister
2006-08
2006-11 Minister National Defence and
State Reform
2011- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health
Cristina Fontes Lima was second in Cabinet 2006-08 and fourth from 2008 (Ministra Adjunta e da
Saúde). (b. 1958-).
2001 Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Maria Madalena
de Brito Neves
2002-08 Minister of Environment, Agriculture and
Fisheries
2008-11 Minister of Labour, Vocational
Training and Social Solidarity
Madalena Neves is a former Government Advisor and Civil Servant (b. 1956-).
2001-02
Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs Fatima Lima Veiga
2002-04 Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Communities
Ambassador to Cuba 1999-2001, to the United Nations 2004-07 and to USA from 2007.
(b. 1957-)
2001-02
Secretary of State of Local Government Edeltrudes Pires Neves
2001-04
Secretary of State of Youth Maria de Jesus Veiga Miranda Mascarenhas
2004-Minister of Education
Filomena de Fátima
Ribeiro Vieira Martins
2004-06 Human Resources
2006-08 Minister of Higher Learning
Nomally known as Filomena Martins.
2006-08 Minister Adjunct to the Prime Minister and Minister of Qualification, Human
Resources,
Employment, Social Communication and Parliamentary Affairs
2008-11 Minister of Decentralization
2008- Minister of Housing
and Territorial Planning
2011- Minister of Enviroment Sara Maria Duarte Lopes
2006-08 State Secretary of Agriculture Rosa Fortes
2006-08 Adjunct Secretary of State of the Minister of Finances and Public Administration Leonesa Fortes
2006- Minister of Finances and Public Administration
Cristina Duarte
Economist and international banker.
2008-09 Minister of Economy and Competitiveness Fátima Maria Carvalho Fialho
Economist, former banker and former civil servant. (b. 1951-).
2008-09 Minister of Justice Marisa Helena
do Nascimento Morais
2008-11 Minister of Education and Higher Education
Vera Valentina Benrós de Melo Duarte Lobo de Pina
2008-11 Minister of the Presidency of the
Ministers and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Janira Isabel Fonseca Hopffer
Almada
2011- Minister of Youth, Employment and Human Resources Development
MP from 2008. (b. 1978-).
2009-11 Minister of Justice Marisa Morais
2011- Minister of
Internal Administration
2011- Minister of Education and Sports Fernanda Marques
2011- Minister of Rural Development Eva Ortet
2011- Minister of Communities Fernanda Fernandes