Aicha Bassarewan

Aicha Binte Umar Bassarewan (Arabic: عائشة بنت عمر باشروان) is an East Timorese politician who was Vice-Minister of Planning and Finance in the National Parliament of East Timor from 2002 to 2007. She is a member of the FRETILIN party.

Career

Bassareawan attended Liceu Dr. Francisco Machado, and completed a master's degree at the National University of East Timor (UNTL). During the Indonesian occupation, she was a founding member of the Popular Organisation of East Timorese Women (OPMT),[1] and one of the volunteer teachers who taught literacy to adults and children, as well as revolutionary ideas.[2]

From 20 May 2002 to 8 August 2007, Bassarewan was Vice Minister of Planning and Finance.[3][4][5] From 2009 to 2012, she was a deputy for Ana Pessoa Pinto MP, and a member of Standing Committee C,[6] the Commission for Economic Affairs, Finance and Anti-Corruption.

As of 2019, Bassarewan is non-executive member of the Board of Governors of the Central Bank of East Timor.[7]

Publications
  • 2010 'The teaching and the learning of reading in the first years of schooling in East Timor', co-author Simone Michelle Silvestre. In Educação e Pesquisa, Vol. 36 No. 2. doi:10.1590/S1517-97022010000200005

References
  1. Cristalis, Irena; Scott, Catherine (2005). Independent women: The story of women's activism in East Timor (PDF). London, England: Catholic Institute for International Relations. pp. 28, 185. ISBN 1852873175. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  2. BASAREAWAN (sic), Aica (sic) (2004). "LITERACY COURSES FROM 1974-1975" (PDF). FIRST NASIONAL LITERACY CONFERENCE IN TIMOR-LESTE 15th of September 2004. Republica Democratica de Timor-Leste; Oxfam. pp. 41–42. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  3. "I Constitutional Government. Sworn into office on May 20th 2002". Government of Timor-Leste. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  4. "II Constitutional Government. Sworn into office on July 10th, 2006". Government of Timor-Leste. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  5. "III Constitutional Government. Sworn into office on May 18th, 2007". Government of Timor-Leste. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  6. UNMIT Democratic Governance Support Unit. "List of High State Officials & Senior Civil Servants of Timor-Leste" (PDF). Timor-Leste Institute for Development Monitoring and Analysis. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  7. "About BCTL: Organization: Board Members". BANCO CENTRAL DE TIMOR-LESTE. 2019. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
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