{"id":24113,"date":"2025-09-22T14:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afis.africa\/sb_speaker\/olavo-avelino-garcia-correia\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T13:36:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:36:42","slug":"olavo-avelino-garcia-correia","status":"publish","type":"sb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/www.afis.africa\/en\/sb_speaker\/olavo-avelino-garcia-correia\/","title":{"rendered":"Olavo Avelino Garcia CORREIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Olavo Avelino Garcia Correia is the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and Business Development and Minister of Digital Economy of Cape Verde. He is a native of the island of Santiago in Cape Verde and holds a degree in Economics, in Berlin as well as a postgraduate degree in Business Management, Riedenburg, Baviera, Germany.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Professionally, Olavo Garcia Correia has always been linked to the field of \u200b\u200beconomics and management, with experience as a professor at the Instituto Superior de Ci&ecirc;ncias 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) &#8211; 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 Cape Verde&#8217;s Treasury in 1997 and Advisor to the President of the Republic in 1993 and Alternate Governor of Cape 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 Ind&uacute;stria, between 2004 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p>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 Cape Verde from 2011 to 2016, and has been Vice-President of the MPD since 2013 &#8211; 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 Cape Verde as Minister of Finance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","evenement-salon":[133,132],"class_list":["post-24113","sb_speaker","type-sb_speaker","status-publish","hentry","evenement-salon-133","evenement-salon-132"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Olavo Avelino Garcia CORREIA - The African Financial Summit Platform<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afis.africa\/en\/sb_speaker\/olavo-avelino-garcia-correia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Olavo Avelino Garcia CORREIA - The African Financial Summit Platform\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. Olavo Avelino Garcia Correia is the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and Business Development and Minister of Digital Economy of Cape Verde. 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