Mahamadou currently holds the position of Director of ODG Division which consists of Governance, Partnerships, Strategies and Communication Teams. Mahamadou plays the role of Senior Strategic Adviser to GGGI’s Director General and leads the teams in charge of driving corporate governance and strategic engagements with Members & partners, developing, and maintaining relationships with partners, initiating policy and strategy formulation, guiding the resource mobilization efforts, leading the change management initiatives, and supporting the President & Chair of GGGI’s Assembly & Council, Mr Ban Ki-moon (United Nations 8th Secretary General), to efficiently support the functioning of our Governance Organs, maintain and establish effective engagements and relations with governments.
Mahamadou has been working over the past 30 years in the fields of green growth policy and program implementation, research and training, institutional development and reforms, and governance in both private sector and international organizations. Mahamadou has extensive experience working in country offices, regional offices and headquarters for several organizations in senior management and technical lead roles with experiences covering Africa, Asia, Americas (North, Central and South Americas), Europe and SIDS countries in the Caribbean and Pacific.
Prior to joining GGGI in 2016, Mahamadou was Vice-President Global Initiatives of Plan International Inc., covering 72 countries.
Mahamadou’s education background includes Civil engineering, Master of Applied Sciences in Environmental Sanitation and a Ph.D. in Applied Structural Engineering.
Mahamadou received numerous honorific distinctions/medals for his works, with the recent one being the “Chevalier de l’Ordre National” medal of Burkina Faso.