Angola

Aaron Griffiths has been Accord Series Editor and also Editor/Researcher at Conciliation Resources.

Carlinda Monteiro is Deputy Director of Christian Children’s Fund-Angola. She has been trained in social work and specialises in the treatment of war-affected children and families, combining African and Western approaches.

Christine Messiant is a sociologist at the Centre for African Studies of the School for Advanced Studies in Social Science (EHESS) in Paris. Her main research focus is the social and political history of the Lusophone countries in Africa, with special emphasis on Angola.

David Birmingham is retired Professor of Modern History at the University of Kent at Canterbury, with a special interest in the history of Portugal and its former African colonies, about which he has published widely. 

Fernando Pacheco is an agronomist and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Angolan NGO ADRA (Action for Rural Development and the Environment).

Filomeno Vieira Lopes is a professional economist as well as a political activist. He is Foreign Relations Secretary and a Parliamentary and Civic Secretary of the Front for Democracy (FpD) and is involved in a broad range of civil society initiatives.

Henda Ducados is a founding member of Rede Mulher (Gender Network) and the Angolan Institute of Research, and serves as Deputy Director of the Social Action Fund in Angola. She has over 10 years of experience in development operations and research management in strategic planning and gender programming. She contributed to the 1999 and 2004 Human Development Reports for the United Nations Development Programme in Luanda. Most recently she has been external relations manager for Total Angola. 

Imogen Parsons is a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science. During her research she has lived and worked in Angola, and written and published on demobilisation and reintegration, post-conflict reconstruction and peacebuilding.

Ismael Mateus is Secretary General of the Union of Angolan Journalists (SJA). He has worked as editor in chief for media outlets in Angola and writes regularly in the independent press.

Jean-Michel Mabeko-Tali is Associate Professor of African History at Howard University, Washington, DC, and at Agostinho Neto University in Luanda. He was raised and educated in Congo-Brazzaville and received his PhD from Université Paris VII. His two-volume history of the MPLA was published in Luanda in 2001.

Manuel J. Paulo is a junior research fellow for the Africa Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), London, UK, where he is also involved in the British-Angola Forum.

Michael Comerford is a consultant to Development Workshop’s peace programmes in Luanda and Huambo. He holds a PhD on ‘Angolan peace narratives, from Bicesse to death of Savimbi’.

Tony Hodges worked in Angola for UN agencies in 1994-95, 1996-98 and 2001-02. The author of Angola: Anatomy of an Oil State (James Currey and Indiana University Press, 2003), he is an associate of Oxford Policy Management and currently works in Mozambique.