Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation camp Africa New Director

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation annoncé Cheikh Oumar Seydi as the new Africa Director. He along at a critical time for the Foundation's work in Africa.

Seydi, Senegalese national has, along the Gates Foundation from the World Bank Group's International Finance Corporation (IFC), Where He Was the regional director for sub-Saharan Africa, based in Nairobi.

 He served as également IFC's director for eastern and southern Africa and have icts global director of human resources covering IFC's worldwide offices. Originally He joined the IFC in 1997 as an investment officer.

In His role as Sub-Saharan regional director for IFC Seydi managed the corporation's investment and advisory operations covering the Region's 49 countries. In 2018, the Africa Region est devenu IFC's Largest annual investment program, reaching $ 6.2 trillion in long-term investments, Including more than $ 4 trillion leveraged from other institutions for the private sector.

Prior to the IFC, Seydi Was a manager at Ernst & Young in New York, Where he Advised corporate customers are restructuring, reorganization, corporate finance and business valuation.

 Aussi He spent five years with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Began His career working for a variety of private banks and a shopping auditing firm in Senegal and Belgium. Seydi holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. 

"Umar Brings extensive experience working across Africa, leading extensive high-performing teams through growth and partnerships across the public and private Both sector," Said Chris Elias, President, Global Development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

. "He will play a central role in the foundation's work across the world's second Largest continent."

"I am looking forward to working with our partners and exploring new strategies That will help Increase the foundation's impact on the continent," added Seydi "This is a critical time in Africa's development and I am excited to join an organization That Is committed to Supporting African countries meeting in Their development goals. " 

The foundation recently grown HAS icts Africa presence, doubling ict Africa-based staff over the past two years. Ongoing It to Deepen ict work in Ethiopia and Nigeria and Strengthen icts sub-Saharan Africa across commitment Including building an ecosystem of partners - public Both and private - to help scale icts increasingly integrated work Towards Addressing healthcare challenges, Eradicating poverty and Facilitating Economic Growth . 

The Foundation's 2018 Report reiterates Goalkeepers; "We believe Africa is the World's Most major priority for the foreseeable future. What happens to the wide number of young people there will be the single biggest determinant of whether the world Makes progress Toward the Sustainable Development Goals-that is, whether life on this planet keeps getting better