Udenrigsudvalget 2016-17
URU Alm.del Bilag 272
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Abdoulaye Mar Dieye
Assistant Administrator and Director, Regional Bureau for Africa
Abdoulaye Mar Dieye was appointed Assistant Administrator and Director of UNDP’s
Regional Bureau for Africa by the United Nations Secretary-General in July 2013.
He was previously Chief of Staff and Director
of UNDP’s Executive Office. Until 2009, Mr.
Dieye was Deputy Assistant Administrator and Deputy Regional Director of UNDP’s
Regional Bureau for Arab States in New York, overseeing UNDP programme portfolios in
the Middle East, Northern Africa and the Gulf Countries.
From 2003 to 2006, Mr. Dieye served as Deputy Special Representative of the UN
Secretary-General
in the UN Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) followed by appointments
as UN Resident Coordinator, UN Designated Official for Security, Humanitarian
Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in the country.
Prior to that, he held several senior positions with UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Africa from
1995 to 2003, respectively as Senior Economist, Chief of Staff, Chief Economist and Chief
of Policy and Country Director of Programmes and Operations for West Africa.
 URU, Alm.del - 2016-17 - Bilag 272: Invitation til møde med UNDP’s regionale direktør for Afrika den 12. september 2017
From 1988 to1995, Mr. Dieye worked with the UN Department for Technical Cooperation
and Development (UN/DTCD) and the UN Department of Economic and So cial
Development (UN/DESD) as a Technical Adviser and as an Interregional Adviser on
Development Policies and Planning. He served, with UN/DTCD, as Macroeconomist and
Chief Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Planning and Development in Burkina Faso
(1986-1988) and to the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation in Haiti (1984 -
1986).
Prior to joining the UN System, Mr. Dieye worked with the Government of Senegal, as
Chief of the General Planning Division (1976-1982) and Inspector General (1982-1984) in
the Ministry of Planning and Cooperation. Mr. Dieye was also a lecturer in Econometrics,
Statistics and Theory of Probabilities at the University of Dakar in Senegal and a lecturer in
Techniques of Development Planning and Operational Research at th e National School of
Applied Economics (ENEA) in Senegal.
Mr. Dieye, a Senegalese national, graduated from the École Nationale de la Statistique et de
l’Administration Économique (ENSAE-CESD)
of the Institut National de la Statistique et
des Études Economiques (INSEE) in France. He also studied Advanced and Specialized
Mathematics in France and holds a Masters in Development Studies, Economic Policy and
Planning from the Institute of Social Studies in The Netherlands.