Ousmane Badiane
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Ousmane Badiane is the Founder and Executive Chairperson of AKADEMIYA2063 which is an international non-profit organization with headquarters in Rwanda and a regional office in Senegal. AKADEMIYA2063’s overall mission is to create state-of-the art technical capacities across Africa to support the efforts by the Member States of the African Union to achieve the key goals of the Agenda 2063 of transforming national economies to boost growth and prosperity. He also initiated the Malabo Montpellier Panel which encourages policy innovations for better development outcomes by bringing together leading global experts and decision-makers. He was the Africa Director for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). In this role, he oversaw the institute’s two regional offices for West and Central Africa in Dakar and Eastern and Southern Africa in Addis Ababa. He coordinated IFPRI’s work program in the areas of food policy research, capacity strengthening, and policy communications in Africa. He was also in charge of IFPRI’s partnerships with African institutions dealing with the above areas. As an Advisor to the NEPAD Secretariat from 2004 to 2007, he was instrumental in developing and guiding the implementation of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). Before his tenure at IFPRI, Dr Badiane, a national of Senegal, was Lead Specialist for Food and Agricultural Policy for the Africa Region at the World Bank from January 1998 to August 2008. He previously worked at IFPRI as Senior Research Fellow from 1989 to 1997, when he led the institute's work on market reforms and development. While at IFPRI, he taught Economics of Development in Africa, as adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies from 1993 to 2003. Dr Badiane received a Master’s Degree and PhD in agricultural economics from the University of Kiel in Germany. His awards include a Doctoral Degree Honoris Causa from the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa, induction as Fellow of the African Association of Agricultural Economics and the Africa Food Prize in 2015.
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