Abdoulie Janneh

Who is Abdoulie Janneh?

Abdoulie Janneh currently serves as the United Nations Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa. He was appointed to the position by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in September 2005.

Janneh is an active player in promoting African development and responding to the continent’s national and regional priorities. Throughout his career, he has been an active player in enhancing partnership-building for Africa, aiming to mobilize support and build inclusiveness for shared development objectives. He has established and maintained high level partnership with programme and donor governments, the private sector, civil society and national, regional and international organizations. He has also written articles on African development and delivered policy statements and keynote speeches. He was member of several advisory panels of organizations on Africa’s development.

He started his career at the United Nations Development Programme as a development planner in 1979. Over the years, he has risen to become a senior manager both in the UNDP and its affiliated funds, including Resident Coordinator and Resident Representative in Ghana and Niger and Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Capital Development Fund.