Suzi Carla Barbosa

Suzi Barbosa is a Bissau-Guinean politician, who is currently board member of the Spain África Strategic Council, since 2025.

She was former Special Adviser of the President of the Republic Umaro Sissoco Embaló, for Foreign Affairs, from 2023 to 2024. She was Senior Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2019 to 2023 and was appointed Minister 4 times. Before she Secretary of State for International Cooperation, from 2015 to 2016. Before she was Diplomatic and Political Adviser for the Prime Minister Aristides Gomes, from 2018 to 2019. She was member of parliament elected 3 times and also Chair of the Women Parliamentarians Network of Guinea-Bissau.She is also PhD student in African Studies in Portugal.

In 2025, she was decorated by the Spanish government with the Order of Merit "Isabel la Católica"

== Career ==

Barbosa is an advocate for the participation of women in the national political affairs of Guinea-Bissau. She was part of the feminist movement in Guinea-Bissau among women from Bafatá Region who avoided voting in elections if women were not featured on the contestants list. She indicated that "Guinea-Bissau has a population mostly made up of women and it is very sad...