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Rogério Lucas Zandamela was born in Inhambane on February 24, 1957. During the colonial period he attended the Liceu António Salazar (now Josina Machel Secondary School) and concluded his secondary studies at Liceu António Enes (now Francisco Manyanga Secondary School), in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo city). He began his degree in Economics at the University of Lourenço Marques (now Eduardo Mondlane University) in 1976 and, in 1981, he concluded his bachelor's degree in Economics and Trade at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, in Italy. In 1983, he pursued his studies and obtained a postgraduate diploma in Development Economics at Université Paris II - Sorbonne, in France. In 2006, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, in the United States of America. Zandamela holds a PhD in Economics from John Hopkins University (1987).

He has been an official at the International Monetary Fund since 1988, where he served as Resident Representative for Brazil, and Head of Mission for Armenia, Costa Rica, Gambia, Guatemala, Liberia, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago and Zimbabwe, in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department.

Until his appointment as Governor of the Banco de Moçambique on 1 September 2016, he was the Head of Mission for Djibouti and Somalia in the IMF Middle East and Central Asia Department.