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Maria de Fátima Monteiro Jardim
Angolan politician
Maria de Fátima Monteiro Jardim is an Angolan politician and diplomat.
She was the Angolan minister for fisheries from 1992 to 1996, in the government of José Eduardo dos Santos,[1] then minister for fisheries and environment from 1996 to 2002. Jardim was member of the National Assembly from 2003 to 2008.[2]
From 2008 to 2017 she was appointed minister for the environment.[3] In 2015, she was Angola's climate envoy at COP 21, representing the Least Developed Countries in the negotiations that led to the Paris Agreement.[4]
Since 2019 she is ambassador of Angola to Italy,[5] as well as to Malta since 2021[6] and to Albania since 2023.[7]