Erik has industrial experience in the production and consultancy areas as an engineer in the private and in the public sector in Mozambique. He is also currently active in the academic field as a lecturer and invited lecturer in Mozambique’s only public university-Universidade Eduardo Mondlane’s faculties of architecture, anthropology and engineering as well as at the mechanical engineering department at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

Erik is the Director of the endowment and investments department at the Foundation for Community Development (FDC), VillageReach's strategic partner in Mozambique. His main responsibilities include growing the foundation's endowment, running its investments and establishing FDC's Development and Resource Mobilization Unit. Erik serves as FDC's Partner Representative to VillageReach. He is also the Executive Director of VidaGas, Lda.

Erik holds a degree in electro-mechanical engineering, and is on a leave of absence from his readings for a master of science in mechanical engineering at the University of Cape Town. He is an avid Rotarian and, at the age of 29, served as one of the youngest ever Rotary club presidents in the world.

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