Carlos Alberto Delgado

Carlos Alberto Delgado was born in the southern part of the municipality of  Porto Novo, Santo Antão, Cape Verde on 28 January 1965.

In 1989, he studied for a bachelor's degree at the Instituto Superior de Educação  (ISE), and in 2001 he completed a degree in Cape Verdean and Portuguese  Studies. On the same date, 2001, he started a degree programme in Cape  Verdean and Portuguese Studies at the Instituto de Estudo Superior Isidoro da  Graça, which he completed in 2002. In 2004, she moved to Portugal, where, at  the University of Beira Interior, she took a Master's degree in Portuguese  Language, Culture and Didactics, specialising in Linguistics in 2006. From 2006 to  2009, she studied for a PhD in Languages at the same university in Portugal,  completing her PhD with high distinction in 2009, specialising in Sociolinguistics.  He has published two books in his field of specialisation and is co-author of a  third, also published. He is a lecturer and researcher and has held various  academic and scientific positions.

For three years he was the Delegate of the Ministry of Education in Porto Novo.  In 2008, he received a Diploma of Merit from the Cape Verdean Public  Administration as one of the country's best public managers. In July 2009, the  Delegation of the Ministry of Education, which he headed as the Ministry's top  official, received a prize worth five hundred thousand escudos as the best public  institution in the country, in a competition launched by the then Secretary of  State for Public Administration and in which several public institutions and  companies in the country took part.

Carlos was Director of the Department of Social and Human Sciences at ULCV for several years.

He was a Deputy of the National Assembly of Cape Verde from 2011 to 2021. He  was a Deputy of the CEDEAO from 2012 to 2021, serving as Rapporteur for the  Committees on Customs and Free Movement of Persons and Goods and  Education, respectively, as well as being a member of the region's Committee on  Political Affairs, Peace and Security. As a CEDEAO parliamentarian, he took part  in several peace missions in various regions, contributing to political normality in  the respective regions and states in conflict. He is a member of the International  Association of Portuguese and Iberian-Based Creoles.

Currently, he is the Rector of the Lusófona University of Cape Verde.

• Linguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Education