Letícia Klemens
Entrepreneur. Former Minister. The founder of Quinta Arca.
Build what lasts.Leave room for others.
From the boardroom to the hills.
Letícia Klemens has spent her working life founding and running companies and business associations in Mozambique.
Born in Maputo in 1972, she founded her first company at twenty-two and later studied communication and law. From 2009 to 2016 she led FEMME, the national association of women entrepreneurs. In 2016 she was appointed Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy of Mozambique.
Quinta Arca, which she founded in 2020, is her most personal project. It carries the name of her grandmother, whose arms were always open to the whole family, and it is run in the same spirit: there is always room for one more.
A short chronology
- 1972
Born in Maputo
Born in Lourenço Marques, today Maputo, where she attended the Escola Secundária Francisco Manyanga.
- Age 22
Her first company
Founds her first business, the beginning of a career spent building companies in Mozambique’s private sector, with a focus on organisational development and human resources.
- 1998 · 2005
Communication and law
Graduates in Communication Sciences (1998) and later in Law (2005) at the Instituto Superior Politécnico e Universitário (ISPU) in Maputo.
- 2009 – 2016
Founding president of FEMME
Co-founds and leads FEMME, the Mozambican Association of Women Entrepreneurs and Business Owners. She also presides over AMAE, the national association of private employment agencies.
- 2015
Millennium bim
Elected chair of the general meeting of shareholders of Millennium bim, one of Mozambique’s largest banks.
- 2016 – 2017
Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy
Serves in the Government of Mozambique as Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy. At the 2017 LNG Producer-Consumer Conference in Tokyo she was the only woman minister present, and the youngest.
- 2020
Quinta Arca
Founds Quinta Arca in Namaacha: nineteen hectares, a family house and an old tree, opened to guests as a home away from home.
“Quinta Arca is a family, and you are more than welcome to be part of it.”
— Letícia Klemens