New Executive Secretary Abdoulie Janneh Joins UNECA

Senior UN manager and Africa specialist Abdoulie Janneh assumes his new post as Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Addis Ababa, Monday. Mr Janneh comes to ECA after a 26-year career with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), culminating in his position as Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the UNDP Regional Bureau for Africa, a post he has held in New York since June 2000. In that role, he managed UNDP activities in 45 countries in sub-Saharan Africa with a complement of over 1,500 staff. Speaking in Addis, Friday, Mr Janneh said he was looking forward to working with a team that had “done great things for Africa over the past ten years.”

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Format: Press release biblioteca
Language:eng
Published: 2005-10
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10855/32334
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