NEW PERMANENT OBSERVER OF WEST AFRICAN ECONOMIC AND MONETARY UNION PRESENTS LETTER OF NOMINATION TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG

Iba Mar Oulare, the new Permanent Observer of the West African Economic and Monetary Union to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his letter of nomination to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Oulare, who is Senegalese, had been serving as Director of the Cabinet of the President of the West African Economic and Monetary Union since 2012. From 2005 to 2012, he was a Technical Counsellor in the Cabinet of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Senegal in charge of regional integration, international trade and customs. He served as Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Senegal in Geneva to the World Trade Union, and to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development from 1999 to 2005. From 1992 to 1999, Mr. Oulare was a customs inspector in Senegal. He was also an instructor at the National School of Customs in Senegal from 1998 to 1999.

Mr. Oulare was born on 19 August 1965 in Kaolack, Senegal. He has a diploma from the National School for State Administration and Magistrates of Senegal as a Custom Inspector (1992) and a Master degree in legal science from the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar (1990). He is married.


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