Manuel de Araújo
Manuel A. Alculete Lopes de Araújo is a Mozambican politician who has been Mayor of Quelimane since December 2011..
Manuel de Araujo was elected ICLEI's Member of the Global Executive Committee in charge of Resilience. In 2017, De Araujo was elected ICLEI's Vice - President for Africa.
He was educated in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and in the United Kingdom at SOAS, University of London and the University of East Anglia. He has served as a Member of Parliament for Maganja da Costa Constituency, Zambezia Province, Shadow Minister for Youth, Sports, Tourism and Culture and Shadow Secretary of State for Europe, North, Central and South America.
He lectured in Economics, Development Economics, International Relations and Comparative Foreign Policy at Catholic University, Pedagogic University, the Instituto Superior de Ciencias e Tecnologias de Mocambique, Universidade A Politecnica and the Instituto Superior de Relacoes Internacionais.
Manuel de Araujo was a Campaigner for the Portuguese and Spanish African Speaking Countries and then a Campaign Coordinator for the Southern African Development Community Project on Policing and Human Rights at Amnesty International. Previously, Manuel de Araujo was a researcher for the Southern African Research and Documentation Centre Human Development Report Project.
