New Permanent Representative of Niger Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

Ado Garba, the new Permanent Representative of Niger to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Garba had been working as a consultant in the private sector. He spent most of his career working at the headquarters of the Central Bank of West African States in Dakar, Senegal, where he was the Head of Mission with the rank of Director at the Inspection and Audit Department from 2012 to 2014.  He worked as an Assistant to the Director of Administration and Heritage from 2009 to 2011; Assistant to the Director of Security from 2007 to 2008; Inspector at the Inspection and Internal Audit Department from 2001 to 2006; and Inspector at the Central Inspection Department from 1993 to 1994. He worked at the Central Bank of West African States in Niger from 1982 to 1992. 

Between 1995 and 2000, Mr. Garba held the position of Inspector and Deputy Head of the Administration Department at the General Secretariat of the West African Economic and Monetary Union in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. 

Mr. Garba has a degree in banking and financing from the West African Centre for Banking Studies and Training in Dakar, Senegal (1982) and a master’s degree in economics and business management from Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal (1980). 

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