Afonso “Mosquito” is a senior commissioned officer in the Angolan Armed Forces’ information technology brach and leads the cyber operations of the Military House of the President of the Republic of Angola. As a Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) Chief, he has led Angola’s anti-corruption efforts and IT Modernization Plan at the Angola’s National Social Security Fund since 2014.

His background is in Compliance, ESG’s, Data Protection, Cybersecurity, and Disruptive Technologies respectably, and his expertise ranges from intelligence analysis and cyber operations, to fraud and insider threat and national security investigations, among others.

Holding post-graduate studies in information security, Mosquito is a tenured course instructor at the Jean Piaget University of Angola and is the co-author and key contributor of “ESG e Justiça Climática” (ESG and Climate Justice). His work overlaps as a Consultant inside Progedes Angola, JFPI Corporation and Franco Romão e Sequeira Advogados, RL (FRS), where he is responsible or managing social projects on the African continent, as well with the Gussem-Saad Law Firm in Brazil.