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About Bernard Mokam-Mojuye

A Cameroonian native currently residing in Atlanta, Georgia, Bernard Mokam-Mojuye has over 25 years of experience in management and development administration in the United Nations. His work focused on Africa. Starting as a UNDP technical advisor, Bernard Mokam-Mojuye rose to become UNDP country director and eventually UNDP regional coordinator for the Sahel. As UNDP regional coordinator for the Sahel, Bernard Mokam-Mojuye convened UN working groups to formulate an integrated working strategy for the Sahel, led UN agencies to support the implementation of the integrated strategy, and conducted several country assessment missions to assess the implementation of the integrated strategy. These countries included Chad, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger. Mr. Mojuye also initiated several strategic interventions to evaluate the drivers of insecurity and violent extremism in the region and coordinated project briefs to address challenges such as electoral and judicial system reform. Mr. Mojuye worked as Senior Program Manager at UNDP Somalia, country director of UNDP Sierra Leone, and senior deputy resident representative/program director at UNDP Zimbabwe. He has carried out UNDP projects in Guinea, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, and Cote d’Ivoire. Before joining UNDP in 1991, he did an internship with the IMF. Mr. Mojuye has a Ph.D. in applied economics from Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and an MA in international economics from Universite de Paris X, France. He previously served as a Board member of the Africa Capacity Building Foundation in Harare, Zimbabwe. He is fluent in English and French.