Biography

Osvaldina Silva is the President of National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development (INDP) in Cape Verde, since April 2015. She graduated in Economics in the Faculty of Science Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro- in Brazil in 1999 and finished her Master in Economics of Marine Resources and the Environment in the faculty of Economics and Marine Sciences, University of Brest in France in 2006. Later in 2013, she obtained the PhD degree in economics in the University of Brest in France.

Osvaldina Silva was Director of the Department of Studies and Projects of the INDP during the years 2010 to 2014 and has worked on the FAO and GTZ projects in Cape Verde in the Fisheries sector for two years before being a member of the INDP.