Mr. Hirondino Garcia

Hirondino Gonçalves Garcia is an Angolan entrepreneur and business leader with more than three decades of experience in entrepreneurship, marketing, communications, construction, real estate, and business development. He has founded and managed companies across several sectors and has also held leadership positions in business associations and national sports organizations.

Since 2018, he has played a central role in the introduction and development of UNCTAD’s Empretec programme in Angola. In 2021, acting on behalf of Prestígio – Liga de Jovens Empresários e Executivos de Angola, he signed a Memorandum of Understanding with UNCTAD to pilot the Empretec programme in the country and became the organization’s legal representative for its implementation in Angola. In 2023, he established PRIMEIRO – Centro Empretec Lda, where he serves as Director General, further supporting the institutionalization and expansion of Empretec activities in Angola.

His professional background combines extensive private-sector experience with longstanding engagement in entrepreneurship promotion, business networks and enterprise development.