Dr. Michael J. Schultheis SJ

Ph.D. Cornell University 1976

Major: International Agricultural Development;

Minors: Comparative Economic Systems, Natural Resource Economics

M.A., Regis College, Toronto, 1966 (Theology)

M.A., Gonzaga University, Spokane, 1963 (Economics)

M.A., Gonzaga University, Spokane, 1959 (Philosophy)

B.A., Gonzaga University, Spokane, 1958 (cum laude)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor de Economia e Direito Científico, Faculdade de Economia e Gestão (FEG), Universidade Católica de Moçambique UCM). 1997

Director, Centro da Investicação e Documentação para Desenvolvimento Integral (CIDDI)

Universidade Católica de Moçambique

Sabbatical and study leave, Brazil and USA. 1996.

Jesuit Refugee Service (J.R.S.) Regional Director, Malawi-Mozambique, 1992-95.

Founder & Director. Mozambican Open Learning Unit, 1991-95.

J.R.S. Regional Director, Africa, 1988-92 (Nairobi, Kenya).

J.R.S. Associate Director, International Secretariate., 1985-1988 (Rome, Italy).

Gregorian Univ., Rome. Invited Lecturer. Dept Social Sciences. 1986-88.

Center of Concern. Washington D.C. Staff Member 1981-1985.

Consultant to US Bishops’ Committees on Peace and on Economic Issues, 1982-84.

NGO representative and observer at UN Special Session on Global Economy (1980, NYC), at UNCTAD (1979, Manila); UN Conference on Desertification (1977, Nairobi).

University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. (1976-1981):

Economic Research Bureau & Dept. of Economics. Assoc. Research Prof.

Interrelig. Taskforce, US Food Policy & Foreign Assist. Staff. Washington DC. 1975-76.

Makerere University, Kampala Uganda. Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) Research Associate and Lecturer. Dept of Rural Economy (1970-1973)

LANGUAGES

English (mother tongue)

Portuguese (good)

French (reading)

Swahili (some conversation)

MEMBERSHIPS

American Economic Association; African Studies Assn. (USA).

Assn of Concerned African Scholars (USA) (Board of Directors, 1984-86).

US Catholic Mission Association (Board of Directors, 1984-85).

People for Peace in Africa (Founding Member. 1989-1996).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 1998 Included in a book of readings on contemporary Afr. Affairs. Africa: Dilemmas of Development

and Change. Peter Lewis, Ed. Boulder Colo.: Westview Press.

• . Catholic Social Teaching: Our Best Kept Secret. Centenary Edition (Maryknoll NY: Orbis

Books, and Center of Concern, Washington D.C. Sixth and revised edition).

1992. "Mozambique. Reflections on a Recent Visit." National Jesuit News (USA)

• 1993. "The Refugee Situation in Africa." Keynote Address to Consultative Meeting on Pastoral Care

of Refugees and Displaced People. Lusaka, Zambia, January 5-9, 1993. Printed in Special

Report/Proceedings. Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Refugees and Itinerant Peoples.

Vatican City.

• 1993. "Mozambique: A Long Journey Home or Rebuilding the Footpaths." Keynote Address, Inter-

regional meeting on Repatriation and Reintegration of Refugees and InternallyDisplaced People.

Maputo, Mozambique. 13-17 April.

"Mozambique: A Long Journey Home." Compass (Toronto, Canada; publication of Canadian

Jesuits). April.

1997. "Centro de Investigação e Documentação para Desenvolvimento Integral (CIDDI): A Proposal

for a Research and Documentation Center at the Catholic University of Mozambique." Beira:

Universidade Católica de Moçambique. Mimeo. 13 pp. Trans. em Português. 1998.>

• 1998"Poverty in the Bairros: The Conflict between Public Policy and Perfomance in Beira,

Mozambique." Paper delivered to International Conference on Poverty, University of Capetown,

Capetown, South Africa, September. Mimeo.

• "G.I.S. As a Planning Tool for Central Mozambique." Paper Presented to a Workshop on

Integrated Analysis and Management of Renewable Natural Resources in Mozambique,

6-11 June 1999, Universidade de Eduarde Mondlane, Faculdade de Agronomia e Engenharia

Florestal, Maputo. Mimeo.

Universidade Católica de Moçambique; C.P. 821, Beira, Moçambique

Phone: 258.3-312.835; - 312.237;

Fax: 311.520

Citizenship: Permanent Resident of Mozambique

Email: ciddi.ucm@teledata.mz