Tomaz Salomão Explained

Dr Tomaz Salomão
Order1:3rd
Office1:Executive Secretary of SADC
Term Start1:August 2005
Term End1:September 2013
Predecessor1:Prega Ramsamy
Successor1:Stergomena Tax
Office2:Minister of Economy and Finance
Term Start2:1994
Term End2:2000
Predecessor2:Eneas Comiche
Successor2:Luísa Diogo
Birth Date:16 October 1954
Birth Place:Inharrime, Portuguese Mozambique
Nationality:Mozambican

Tomaz Salomão (born 16 October 1954) is a Mozambican politician and economist. He was Minister of Economy and Finance from 1994 to 2000.[1] He served as the third Executive Secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).[2] Salomão was appointed at the 2005 Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community in Gaborone, Botswana. He earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

Opponents of President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe have criticized Salomão for his assessment of Zimbabwean elections as free and fair. Salomão said that SADC would pull out an EU summit to be held in Lisbon in December 2007 if Zimbabwe was on the agenda. "SADC will not go to Lisbon to discuss Zimbabwe because the summit is not about Zimbabwe, but about relations between the EU and Africa," he said.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ensino superior em Moçambique: história, política e gestão . Higher education in Mozambique: history, politics and management . pt . https://web.archive.org/web/20210831005012/http://iepapp.unimep.br/biblioteca_digital/pdfs/2006/USQUKAQXVOQD.pdf . 2021-08-31.
  2. Web site: Regional Integration and Cooperation - Southern Africa: SADC - Southern African Development Community . web.worldbank.org . 12 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170120001054/http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/EXTREGINI/EXTAFRREGINICOO/0,,contentMDK:20626642~menuPK:1592446~pagePK:64168445~piPK:64168309~theSitePK:1587585,00.html . 20 January 2017 . dead.