Fernando Jorge de Castro Teixeira Cardoso is a specialist in development and African studies. He is currently coordinator of the area of ​​strategic studies and development at the Instituto Marquês de Valle Flôr (IMVF) and executive director of the Clube de Lisboa. He is currently coordinator of the area of ​​strategic studies and development at the Instituto Marquês de Valle Flôr (IMVF) and executive director of the Clube de Lisboa.

He holds a degree in economics, with a Bachelor’s degree (1976) from Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo and a PhD (1991) and Aggregation (2006) from the Higher Institute of Economics and Management of the University of Lisbon.

The first years of his work, from 1976 to 1985, were spent in Mozambique in the post-independence period, having spent the first 8 years as a professor at the Faculty of Economics (which he directed for 6 years) and, cumulatively, as an advisor to the Minister of Planning; in the last 2 years he was general director of the Maragra sugar agro-industrial company.

Since 1986, his academic and professional life has been spent mainly in Portugal, particularly as a researcher and, since 1991, also as a professor at several Portuguese universities. He carried out several international consultancies and received the Cooperation Award in 1995 for the book “Gestão e Desenvolvimento Rural”.

The bulk of his non-academic career has focused on organizing policy-oriented activities, including participation in expert meetings, consultancy on development cooperation and, in recent years, on studying and publicly intervening on international reality in various forums, including the national and international written press, radio and television.

In both paths, the main areas of activity have been international and development, with a focus on the African continent, with the focus of attention in recent years on issues of geoeconomics and geopolitics, as well as on the global challenges facing humanity and the planet and the implications of the acceleration of technological changes on social and individual behaviors.