Leadership

Rosine Sori-Coulibaly

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced on 29 july the appointment of Rosine Sori-Coulibaly of Burkina Faso as his new Special Representative for Guinea-Bissau and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS).

She succeeds José Viegas Filho of Brazil, who completed his assignment on 18 May 2019. The Secretary-General is grateful for Mr. Viegas Filho’s leadership of UNIOGBIS during his tenure.

Having served as Minister for Economy, Finance and Development in her home country from 2016-2019, Ms. Sori-Coulibaly brings to this position more than 35 years of international and national experience in the field of sustainable and humanitarian development, political transition, poverty reduction, fiscal and budgetary reforms, gender equality and women’s empowerment.

She served over 20 years with the United Nations in various senior-level capacities, notably in 2011 as Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Burundi, Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). She was Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Togo from 2006 to 2011, and in Benin, from 2014 to 2016.

Before joining UNDP, Ms. Sori-Coulibaly held advisory positions in Burkina Faso, including with the Ministry of Economic Development and Planning, from 1982 to 1990. She was active in civil society organizations, in particular those fighting for human rights and women’s empowerment.

She holds a master’s degree in development economics from Cheikh Anta Diop University, and a postgraduate degree in planning and macroeconomics from the United Nations African Institute for Economic Development and Planning, both in Senegal.

 

Previous Representatives/Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Guinea-Bissau and Heads of UNOGBIS/UNIOGBIS

Mr. José Viegas Filho (Brasil), May 2018-May 2019
Mr. Modibo Touré (Mali), May 2016-May 2018
Mr. Miguel Trovoada (São Tomé), June 2014-May 2016
Mr. José Ramos-Horta (Timor-Leste), January 2013-June 2014
Mr. Joseph Mutaboba (Rwanda), February 2009-January 2013
Mr. Shola Omoregie (Nigeria), October 2006 - December 2008
Mr. João Bernardo Honwana, (Mozambique) September 2004 - September 2006
Mr. David Stephen (United Kingdom), February 2002 - April 2004
Mr. Nana Sinkan (Cameroon), 1999 - 2002

 

 

Mamadou Diallo

Mamadou Diallo

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today, 14 October, the appointment of Mamadou Diallo of Guinea as his new Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS).  Mr. Diallo will also serve as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Guinea-Bissau.

Mr. Diallo succeeds David McLachlan-Karr of Australia, who completed his assignment in June, and to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for his dedicated service during his tenure.

Currently serving as the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General in the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH), United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Mr. Diallo brings to the position almost three decades of experience with the United Nations.  He Served from 2015 to 2017 as Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator as well as Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).  

Between 2012 and 2015, Mr. Diallo held the position of Regional Director for West and Central Africa of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).  From 2009 to 2012, he was the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Eritrea.  He also served as the Representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Mali (2005-2009) and in Sierra Leone (2001-2005).  Mr. Diallo was Regional Adviser in Maternal and Child Health in the UNFPA Regional Office for West and Central Africa based in Dakar, Senegal from 1992 to 2001. 

Mr. Diallo holds a medical doctor (MD) degree from the Conakry University School of Medicine (Guinea), a master’s degree in public health (MPH) from the San Diego State University in California (USA) and a special diploma in public health from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium).