Luísa Diogo

Luísa Dias Diogo (11 April 1958 – 16 January 2026) was a Mozambican economist and politician who served as Prime Minister of Mozambique from 2004 to 2010. She also served as Minister of Planning and Finance between 2000 and 2005. Diogo was the first female prime minister of Mozambique and her term in office was notable for the economic reforms that brought financial stability to the country and women empowerment.

== Early life ==

Diogo was born on 11 April 1958 in Magoé District, Tete Province, Portuguese Mozambique as the daughter of a nurse and a housewife. She went to a school in Tete, studied accounting at the Commercial Institute until 1979 and got a bachelor's degree in economics from the Eduardo Mondlane University in 1983 and a master's degree in financial economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London in 1992.

== Career ==

Diogo joined the Ministry of Finance's Department of Economic Sectors and Investment as a technical officer in 1980, and in 1984 she became deputy head of the department. She became its national budget director in 1989, and until 1992. She subsequently worked for the Mozambican office of the World Bank as programme officer...