João Baptista Borges (born 4 January 1964, Luanda) is an Angolan academic and politician who served as Minister of Energy and Water under Presidents José Eduardo dos Santos and João Lourenço from 2012 t0 2017.[1] He was a professor of Engineering at Agostinho Neto University and was a member of the MPLA political bureau. He resigned from his ministerial position following an allegation of corruption involving award of contracts to his private company Valoris International incorporated in Virgin Islands in 2013.[2] He speaks three foreign languages, English, French and Spanish fluently.
French, English, Spanish.
Education
Borges studied for a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering at the Agostinho Neto University in 1991, and then went for a master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal in 2011.[3]
Career
Borges entered the civil service in 1991 as Trainee mechanical engineer, ENE / North Regional Directorate until 1992 when he was appointed professor of Engineering at Agostinho Neto Universityo and served concurrently in other positions until 2008 when became Deputy Minister of Energy. From 2010 to 2011, he served as Secretary of State for Energy and from 2012 to 2017, he served as minister of Energy and Water. He resigned in 2017 following a report by a Portuguese television channel, Portuguese tiv-24[4] alleging that the minister laundered Angolan money through family members (his son and a nephew) using a complex web of offshore companies.[5]
References
- ^ Pereira, João Baptista Borges; Torres, Lilian de Lucca (2014-07-25). "Entrevista com João Baptista Borges Pereira". Ponto Urbe (14). doi:10.4000/pontourbe.1430. ISSN 1981-3341.
- ^ Lima, Laércio Conceição (2013). "Da legitimidade do ministério público para a investigação de natureza criminal". De Jure - Revista Jurídica do Ministério Público do Estado de Minas Gerais. 12 (20). doi:10.5935/1809-8487.20130011. ISSN 1809-8487.
- ^ Pereira, João Baptista Borges; Torres, Lilian de Lucca (2014-07-25). "Entrevista com João Baptista Borges Pereira". Ponto Urbe (14). doi:10.4000/pontourbe.1430. ISSN 1981-3341.
- ^ Lima, Laércio Conceição (2013). "Da legitimidade do ministério público para a investigação de natureza criminal". De Jure - Revista Jurídica do Ministério Público do Estado de Minas Gerais. 12 (20). doi:10.5935/1809-8487.20130011. ISSN 1809-8487.
- ^ "Resignation of Aivaras Abromavicius, the Lithuanian-born economy minister: No to corruption". Human Rights Documents Online. Retrieved 2022-06-18.