Speaker

Armando MANUEL

Former Minister of Finance (2013-2016) - Republic of Angola

Armando Manuel was Minister of Finance of the Republic of Angola from May 2013 to September 2016.

During his tenure, Manuel led extensive public sector and fiscal reforms that resulted in the elimination of quasi-fiscal expenditures, removed fuel subsidies, improved debt management structures, launched a tax reform aiming to wide up the tax base and enhanced the role of tax administration, launched measures to control levels of current expenditure, focusing on quality of the expenditure, hence designed a fiscal medium-term framework, aiming to control the budget deficits. He tackled macroeconomic stability with several structural reforms particularly at the time when global oil prices took a downward spiral.

Manuel, was also at the time Chairman of the African Caucus Group of African Finance Ministers and Governors of Central Banks. The African Banker Organization awarded to him the special prize of Minister of Finance of the Year in acclamation of his distinguished management of the economy of the Republic of Angola.
Mr. Armando Manuel holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics, and a Master of Science degree in Economics from Agostinho Neto University in Angola, and London Guildhall University (now London Metropolitan University) in the United Kingdom, respectively.