Fane Benedito Eduardo Duarte Macueia, was born on December 27th 1982 in Gurúè, Zambézia. He is an agronomist with a well experienced profession, has a Master’s degree in Ecology, was a lecturer in the discipline of Agriculture and Sustainable Fishing at the Catholic University of Moçambique-FGTI and in Biostatistics at ISCTAC, is a lecturer at the University Lúrio-FCN, allocated in the Department of Botany, taught the disciplines of Agricultural and Forestry Mechanization, Agricultural Experimentation, Community Extension and Entrepreneurship, currently teaches the disciplines of Botany, Plant Physiology, Agricultural, Forestry and Livestock Resources.

He coordinated at the level of the province of Cabo Delgado the Independent Verification Project of Community Based Nutrition service packages, carried out for InSite, Lda-Deloitte & Touche (Mozambique) Lda-MISAU, he did independent environmental consultancy for Grafex in the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP).