José Eduardo Dos Santos, President of the Republic of Angola, was born the 28 of August of 1942, son of Eduardo Avelino Dos Santos and Jacinta Jose Paulino, married with Ana Paula Dos Santos.

He concluded the secondary education in Luanda (College Salvador Correia) and was combined in the MPLA in November 1961, in the exile. He formed in Oil Engineering, in the Institute of Oil and Gas of Baku (old Soviet Union) in 1969. Returned to the country (Angola), he was Minister of Foreign affairs in the first Government consisting after the Independence of Angola; 2º Vice - Prime minister, in 1978, and Minister of the Planning, in 1978-79. He was elect President of the MPLA, on 20th September 1979 and in the position of President ( the Popular Republic of Angola) until October 1992 when the first presidential elections took place, which he won the first round (tour) with 49,6% of the votes.

From 1986 until 1992 Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, created the base and efforts of pacification in the country and in the region, that had culminated with the withdrawal of the South African invading troops, the repatriation of Cuban contingent, the independence of the Namibia and the end of the "apartheid" regime in South Africa.

He putted in place a multilateral program of national resistance against the war and finally was reached an agreement between them commands military of Government troops and the rebellious forces that put a definitive end oh the war in Angola, in a solemnly in a fulfilled ceremonial in Luanda on 4th April 2002. Significantly in the same period the Angola President contributed in a decisive form for the stabilization of the situation in the Republics of Congo/Brazzaville and Democratic of Congo and for the search of a politics solution in the military conflict in the region.