BIO

Filipe Jacinto Nyusi is the ruling president of Mozambique. He successfully completed his first term in power (2015-2013) and was reconfirmed president for a second term (2020-2024). Native to Cabo Delgado, President Nyusi is the fourth president of Mozambique and the first from the north of the country. Prior to assuming office, Nyusi served as minister of defense from 2008 to 2014 in the cabinet of President Armando Guebuza. Previously, Nyusi worked for the state-owned Mozambique Ports and Railways authority (CFM). He became executive director of CFM-Norte, the northern division of the company in 1995 and joined the company’s board of directors in 2007. He is also a lecturer at the Nampula campus of Universidade Pedagógica, a fellow of the Africa Leadership Initiative, and a member of the National Committee of Fighters of the National Liberation Struggle. Nyusi holds a mechanical engineering degree from Antonín Zápotocký Military Academy in Brno, former Czechoslovakia, and a master’s degree from the Victoria University of Manchester in the UK.