Fernanda Ailina Pedro Massarongo Chivulele

Fernanda Ailina Pedro Massarongo Chivulele holds an MSc in Development Economics from London University. She works as an economic researcher at the institute of Social and Economic Studies (IESE) in Mozambique. Her work focuses on the relationship between the financial sector, public finances, and the economic structure. She has been at the Institute for over seven years and currently coordinates IESE’s economic and development group. Fernanda Ailina Pedro Massarongo Chivulele also worked as a lecturer in Public Finance, Macroeconomics, and Elementary Economics at the Eduardo Mondlane University, the oldest and biggest university in Mozambique. She was one of the main facilitators in a public budget training program for civil society, organized by IESE and the Civil Society Support Mechanism (MASC). In 2013 Fernanda volunteered to help flood victims in southern Mozambique, and in 2005 she was part of the commission that introduced the ‘prom’ into schools in Niassa, Mozambique’s biggest province(Africa).