BIOGRAPHY
CIVIL
STATUS
Name: Francisco
Benante
Date of birth: September
6th 1954
Place of birth: Ponta Rosa - Sao Domingo Area, Guine Bissau
Marital status: Married
Nationality: Bissau
Guinean
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Law, graduated
at Bissau Law University
CAREER
Secretary General of the
National Commision of Unesco for Guinea Bissau from 1983 to 1989
Dean of the Faculty of Law
of Bissau from 1994 to 2000
Lawyer since 1995
Defence and War Veterans
Minister from 1999 to 2002
National Assembly Chairman
from 2004 to 2008
UEMOA member of Parliament
since 2004
CEDEAO member of Parliament
since 2004
POLITICAL
CAREER
Veteran activist of PAIGC since 1966
Member of the Audit and
Control Commission
PAIGC militant since 1986
PAIGC member of the
verification and control commission in 1998
