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Career
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Isaque Manteiga Joaquim is a Mozambican economist, academician, and social justice advocate whose work examines economic development, science and innovation, education, tourism, governance, and public policy. He has taught and conducted research in Mozambique and abroad, and has contributed to studies of investment, regional development, technology, and the effects of conflict on education.
Background
Isaque Manteiga Joaquim was born on February 22, 1983, in Zambezia, Mozambique. His professional and academic work has remained connected to Mozambique's economic and social development, including questions of education, investment, governance, technology, and regional inequality.
He has described Africa as home and has traveled widely, particularly in connection with volunteer and professional activities. In 2018, he participated as a recorder in the Onchocerciasis Elimination Mapping project in Mozambique, helping document field data during a public-health initiative focused on disease elimination.
Education
Joaquim attended Escola Primaria Emila Dausse in Chine and later studied at Escola Secundaria de Mocuba from 1997 to 2001. His university education began with agricultural economics at the University of Blida, where he completed a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Agro-Food Economics from 2005 to 2010.
He subsequently earned an MBA from Pole ESG between 2010 and 2011. Pole ESG is a French higher-education institution associated with management and business studies. Joaquim then pursued doctoral studies in finance at the School of Economics of Shandong University from 2015 to 2019; Shandong University, founded in 1864, is one of China's major comprehensive research universities and maintains a prominent tradition in economics and the social sciences.
His later doctoral research focused on corporate governance of nongovernmental organizations, public-service delivery, and economic growth in Mozambique. A 2022 Shandong University notice identifies him as a doctoral candidate in finance defending research on the governance of NGOs and its effects on public services and economic growth.
Joaquim began working in economic and academic settings connected with Mozambique, China, Ethiopia, and international development organizations. He worked as a junior economist at UNAIDS–Mozambique in Maputo from 2015 to 2016. UNAIDS coordinates international action against HIV/AIDS and supports evidence-based public-health policy, placing his economic role within a broader development and health environment.
From 2016 to 2019, he served as a junior assistant lecturer at Shandong University in Jinan, China, while undertaking doctoral study in finance. In 2017 he also worked as a junior lecturer at Addis Ababa University. Addis Ababa University, established in 1950, is Ethiopia's oldest and largest university and a major center of higher education and research in the country.
Joaquim worked in finance at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa from 2017 to 2018. The African Union is a continental organization established in 2002 to promote cooperation, integration, peace, security, and development among African states. By 2019 he was associated with the Faculty of Economics of Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, where he has worked as an academic and researcher.
His research addresses science, technology and innovation policy, macroeconomic variables, trade and foreign investment, regional development, education, tourism marketing, governance, and the effects of terrorism and internal displacement on education in Mozambique. In 2022 he contributed to research on online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and on growth-pole and export-base theories in Mozambican development. His later work examined the education-sector consequences of conflict and displacement in Cabo Delgado.
Joaquim developed research on the relationship between science, technology, innovation, and economic growth in Mozambique, examining how national policy and innovation systems can support economic planning.
He contributed to academic studies of trade openness, foreign investment, regional development, education, tourism marketing, public-service delivery, and the effects of conflict and internal displacement on education.
He participated in the Onchocerciasis Elimination Mapping project in Mozambique as a recorder, supporting field data collection for a public-health initiative directed toward eliminating river blindness.
(Existing publication record preserved from the profile's ...)
2017
Views
Joaquim has expressed an ethical outlook centered on social responsibility, opposition to governmental wrongdoing, and the communal principle associated with Ubuntu. His stated ideas emphasize that individuals have responsibilities to one another and that public silence in the face of injustice can endanger society.
His academic and advocacy interests similarly focus on the relationship between institutions and human welfare. His research on education, public services, economic development, governance, and displacement treats economic policy as connected to social justice and the practical conditions of communities.
Quotations:
"When there is a danger, shout about it; you might be the next victim." "The most dangerous person for the well-being of a society is the one who, even knowing a government is wrong, keeps defending and supporting it." "I am because we are"—a formulation associated with Ubuntu.
Personality
Joaquim has described himself as cool and collected.
Physical Characteristics:
Tall and slim.
Interests
African social development, volunteering, public health, education, and travel.
Politicians
Kwame Nkrumah
Writers
Chinua Achebe
Sport & Clubs
Football; teams and clubs associated with his interests include TP Mazembe, Gor Mahia, and the Mambas of Mozambique.
Music & Bands
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
Connections
Joaquim is married to Elzira Tundumula, an academic collaborator with whom he has also worked on research concerning economic development. He has four children: twins Jesseh and Pamella, Mariah, and Joseph.
His mother is Fatima Dos Santos. Raitone Armando is identified as his brother and has collaborated with Joaquim on research concerning growth-pole and export-base theories in Mozambique.
Mother:
Fatima Dos Santos
child:
Jesseh
Twin child.
child:
Pamella
Twin child.
child:
Mariah
child:
Joseph
Brother:
Raitone Armando
Economist and co-author with Joaquim on research concerning growth-pole and export-base theories in Mozambique.
Wife:
Elzira Tundumula
Academic collaborator and co-author on research concerning economic development in Mozambique.
Shandong University doctoral defense notice
Documents Joaquim's doctoral defense in finance and identifies his research topic as corporate governance of NGOs and its effects on public-service delivery and economic growth in Mozambique.
2022
RSIF in Mozambique
Documents Joaquim's research topic on the macroeconomic determinants of private investment in Mozambique's agrarian value chain.
