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 [1]