ILO Country Director presents letter of introduction

External Relations Minister, Lejeune Mbella Mbella, on Friday, October 16, 2015, received the newly designated Country Director of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) for Cameroon, Angola and Sao Tome et Principe, Mrs Vera Lucia Paquete-Perdigao. During the in-camera meeting, Mrs Paquete-Perdigao presented her Letter of Introduction.

Before her new assignment, Mrs Vera Lucia Paquete-Perdigao worked in ILO’s office in Dakar, Senegal, as Senior Child Labour Specialist since 2003. Her first assignment in the ILO was in the ILO Regional Office for Africa based in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire as Coordinator of the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) for Africa, from 2001 to 2002.

Prior to the ILO, she worked for the World Bank as Consultant for Operations Evaluation Department in Washington DC, USA, and in Luanda in Angola.

Mrs Paquete-Perdigao is a national of Guinea Bissau. Born on June 9, 1965, she pursued higher education in Jules Verne University in Amiens, France, where she obtained an undergraduate degree in Economics in 1990 and a Masters in Economics and Business Management in 1991.

In 2000, she earned a Master of Arts and Economic Development from Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, United States of America (USA). Back in her country, Guinea-Bissau, she held a couple of duties in the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation.