Fernando Manuel Lúcio Marques da Costa

Degree in History from the Lisbon Arts Faculty. University Lecturer at the Higher Institute of Labour and Company Sciences. Member of the National Leadership of the Portuguese Socialist Party, where he was in charge of international relations and spokesperson between 1988 and 1996. Deputy to the Assembly of the Republic between 1991 and 1996. Political advisor to the President of the Portuguese Republic, between 1996 and 2006. Director of companies. Author of several works on history, political science and international relations. International adviser in several processes of democratic transition in Africa, in Latin America and Asia. At the head of the Portuguese team in the negotiations on the transfer of HCB to Mozambican ownership between 2004 and 2007. Executive director of HCB since 2003. Grand Officer of the Order of the Infante D. Henrique.