Manuel de Araújo

Manuel A. Alculete Lopes de Araújo (born 11 October 1970) is a Mozambican politician who has been Mayor of Quelimane since December 2011.[1][2]

Manuel de Araújo
Mayor of Quelimane
Incumbent
Assumed office 2011
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
In office 2004–2009
Constituency	Zambezia Province
Personal details
Born	(1970-10-11) 11 October 1970
Political party	RENAMO (?–2009, 2018-present)
Other political affiliations	Democratic Movement of Mozambique (2011–2018)
Alma mater	SOAS, University of London University of East Anglia

Manuel de Araujo was elected ICLEI's Member of the Global Executive Committee in charge of Resilience (Co-Chair) in 2018. In 2017, De Araujo was elected ICLEI's Vice-President for Africa.

He was educated in Mozambique (BA Hons, Instituto Superior de Relacoes Internacionais), Zimbabwe (MPS, University of Zimbabwe and SARIPS), and in the United Kingdom at SOAS, University of London (MSc) and the University of East Anglia (PhD, 2011). He has served as a Member of Parliament for Zambezia Province, Shadow Minister for Youth, Sports, Tourism and Culture and Shadow Secretary of State for Europe, North, Central and South America.

He lectured in Economics, Development Economics, International Relations and Comparative Foreign Policy at Catholic University of Mozambique, Pedagogic University, the Instituto Superior de Ciencias e Tecnologias de Mocambique, Universidade A Politecnica and the Instituto Superior de Relacoes Internacionais.

Manuel de Araujo was a campaigner for the Portuguese and Spanish African Speaking Countries (Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe) and then a Campaign Coordinator for the Southern African Development Community Project on Policing and Human Rights at Amnesty International (London). Previously, Manuel de Araujo was a researcher for the Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC) Human Development Report Project.