Domingos Simões Pereira

Domingos Simões Pereira (born 20 October 1963) is a Bissau-Guinean politician who was Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau from 2014 to August 2015. He previously served as Executive Secretary of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, also known as the Lusophone Commonwealth, from 2008 to 2012.

== Early life ==

Born in Farim on October 20, 1963, Domingos Simões Pereira is the son of a farmer, a small landowner forced to abandon the property due to the beginning of the war of independence. His father was even arrested by the International and State Defense Police (PIDE), accused of collaboration with nationalist groups.

Still a child, he went, with the rest of his family, to Bissau and, soon after, in 1969, to Cacheu, where he attended primary school.

== Academic and professional career ==

In 1974, he joined the first groups of students who, at National Lyceum Kwame N'Krumah, under the teaching of names like Atchutchi Ferreira and Helder Proença, studied without the tutelage of the colonial regime. It was at the high school that, in 1979, he became a staff of the African Youth Amílcar Cabral (JAAC), youth wing of the PAIGC.

With the completion of high school education, he is selected...