SAMUEL C. NANA-SINKAM OF CAMEROON APPOINTED SECRETARY-GENERAL REPRESENTATIVE AND HEAD OF UN PEACE-BUILDING SUPPORT OFFICE IN GUINEA-BISSAU (UNOGBIS)
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SAMUEL C. NANA-SINKAM OF CAMEROON APPOINTED SECRETARY-GENERAL REPRESENTATIVE AND HEAD OF UN PEACE-BUILDING SUPPORT OFFICE IN GUINEA-BISSAU (UNOGBIS)
19990430 Biographical Note Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed Samuel C. Nana-Sinkam, a national of Cameroon, to be his Representative in Guinea-Bissau and the Head of the United Nations Peace-building Support Office (UNOGBIS) in that country.Mr. Nana-Sinkam, who started his United Nations career in 1967 as an economist with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome, has been the FAO Representative in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, since 1995. He was the FAO Director-General's Representative at the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and Director of the joint ECA/FAO Division on Agriculture in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 1987 to 1995. In 1993, he led a high-level United Nations Inter-Agency Economic Policy Review Mission to Namibia.
Mr. Nana-Sinkam has also held various positions with his Government where he served in the Ministry of Planning. In 1970, he joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, D.C. and worked in various positions dealing with macroeconomic and technical assistance domains. From 1976 to 1982, he was IMF Executive Director for 21 African countries, including Guinea-Bissau. From 1984 to 1986, he was a senior adviser at the IMF, following a tenure as Professor of Economic Development and Monetary Theory at the University of Paris IX Dauphine and served as adviser to the President of the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York.
Mr. Nana-Sinkam studied economics and planning at the Institute of Economic Development and Planning in Dakar, Senegal, and holds doctorate degrees in economics from the University of Poitiers, France, and the George Washington University in the United States. In addition to a large number of publications on economic, monetary, development, trade and technical assistance issues, he has, since 1996, been active in the dissemination of ideas on conflict resolution and mediation, transition and democratization and their linkage to traditional African values. Mr. Nana-Sinkam speaks French, English, Spanish and Italian.
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