Olavo Correia

Dr. Olavo Avelino Garcia Correia is the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and Business Development and Minister of Digital Economy of Cabo Verde. He is a native of the island of Santiago in Cabo Verde and holds a degree in Economics, in Berlin as well as a postgraduate degree in Business Management, Riedenburg, Baviera, Germany. 

Professionally, Olavo Garcia Correia has always been linked to the field of ​​economics and management, with experience as a professor at the Instituto Superior de Ciências Juridical and Social between 2014 and 2016. He has held important positions both in public and private sectors. He was a member of the Advisory Board of Banco de Cabo Verde (BCV) - from 2004 to 2016, from 2006 onwards and for 10 years as Managing Director of Banco Montepio Geral Cabo Verde (BMGCV). He was Director General of Cabo Verde's Treasury in 1997 and Advisor to the President of the Republic in 1993 and Alternate Governor of Cabo Verde at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In his private sector career, Olavo Garcia Correia, held the position of Director of the Tecnicil Group, having held the functions of Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tecnicil Indústria, between 2004 and 2016.

And in politics, he was Assistant Secretary of State to the Minister of Finance in 1999, a member of the Council of the Republic of Cabo Verde from 2011 to 2016, and has been Vice-President of the MPD since 2013 - the political party that supports the current Government. From April 2016 to January 2018 Olavo Garcia Correia was part of the Government of the IX Legislature of the Republic of Cabo Verde as Minister of Finance.