# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/manuel-chang
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:25:33.173Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/manuel-chang"
name: "Manuel Chang"
slug: "manuel-chang"
description: "Manuel Chang is a Mozambican economist and former politician of the FRELIMO party. From 2005 to 2015 he served as the Minister of Economy and Finance in the cabinet of President Armando Guebuza. He replaced Luísa Diogo as Finance Minister in February 2005. His work as Finance Minister was intertwined in a debt scandal. In January 2015 when President Filipe Nyusi assumed office he replaced Chang as Finance Minister with Adriano Maleiane."
tagline: "Politician in Mozambique"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1955-08-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.142765333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9B%BC%E5%8A%AA%E5%9F%83%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E9%83%91"
    title: "曼努埃尔·郑"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "مانويل تشانج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ee.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Chang"
    title: "Manuel Chang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Chang"
    title: "Manuel Chang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Chang"
    title: "Manuel Chang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Chang"
    title: "Manuel Chang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%84_%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "مانوئل چانگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88473923"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump