Mohamed Béavogui Explained

Mohamed Béavogui
Office:Prime Minister of Guinea
Term Start:6 October 2021
Term End:17 July 2022
Predecessor:Ibrahima Kassory Fofana
Successor:Bernard Goumou
President:Mamady Doumbouya
Birth Date:15 August 1953
Birth Place:Porédaka, French Guinea, French West Africa
Party:Independent
Nationality:Guinean

Mohamed Béavogui (born 15 August 1953 in Porédaka) is a Guinean diplomat and politician, and the former interim prime minister of Guinea from 6 October 2021 to 17 July 2022.

Biography

Béavogui was born in August 1953 in Porédaka, the son of a diplomat, and the nephew of former Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Diallo Telli. He began studying at Gamal Abdel Nasser University of Conakry in 1972. He then earned a master's degree in engineering from the Kalinin Politechnical Institute in the Soviet Union, and a degree in executive management from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in the United States.[1]

From 1982 to 1986, he worked in Nigeria, before being recruited as a consultant by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. In 2001, he was named the Regional Director for West and Central Africa for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a post he held until 2011. In October 2011, he became the Director of Partnership and Resource Mobilization and Senior Advisor to the President of IFAD. In 2015, he was named director of the African Capacity Building Foundation.[2]

Prime Minister

See also: Mohamed Béavogui's government. On 6 October 2021, a month after the 2021 Guinean coup d'état, he was named transitional prime minister of Guinea by interim president Mamady Doumbouya.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mohamed Béavogui | Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience. basis.ucdavis.edu. 2021-10-11.
  2. Web site: Ces Guinéens qui nous rendent fiers – Mohamed Béavogui, DG de " African Risk Capacity " et S/G adjoint des Nations Unies – Guinéenews©. guineenews.org. 2021-10-11.
  3. Web site: Guinea military government names Mohamed Beavogui as PM | News. Al Jazeera. 2021-10-11.