Minister Fernando Sumban, Jnr, 
Minister of Tourism in Mozambique

He started working in 1974 while still studying. He was teacher at secondary school. After that, while studying economics, he worked in a supermarket as supervisor and moved on to supervise two supermarkets.

From there he moved to a construction materials company and worked there about 5 years. Afterwards he integrated the Ministry of Foreign Trade as Director of Human Resources. Having finished his bachelors degree in economics he moved to the department of International Relations of the same Ministry and from there he was invited to setup a procurement office (Bureau de Procurement) in charge of monitoring and analyzing the procurement methods in European companies because at that stage the World Bank and the European Union were injecting a lot of funds in Mozambique. Their procedures were not known so they setup a body where they were training people and at the same time monitoring and approving all the procurement files. In 1987, he went to the United States of America to do his master degree in Business Administration and came back in 1989 and was appointed Director of the Green Marketing Boards. Later on he was appointed National Director of Tourism and then Director of the Investment Promotion Center. In 2000, he was taken from the Investment Promotion Center to be the Minister of Tourism.