Pierre Claver Damiba | |
Birth Date: | 1937 2, df=y |
Birth Place: | Koupéla, French Upper Volta, French West Africa |
Death Place: | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso |
Nationality: | Burkinabè |
Occupation: | Economist |
Office: | Member of the National Assembly of Upper Volta |
Term Start: | 1978 |
Term End: | 1980 |
Term Start1: | 1971 |
Term End1: | 1974 |
Office2: | Minister of Planning and Public Works |
Term Start2: | January 1966 |
Term End2: | February 1971 |
Pierre Claver Damiba (14 February 1937 – 1 May 2024) was a Burkinabè economist and politician.[1] [2]
Born in Koupéla on 14 February 1937, Damiba was the brother of journalist and diplomat Noellie Marie Béatri Damiba. He served as Minister of Planning and Public Works from 1966 to 1971 and was a member of the National Assembly from 1971 to 1974 and from 1978 to 1980.[3] He was the first Executive President of the West African Development Bank, located in Togo. He was then an African advisor to the International Finance Corporation and African regional director of the United Nations Development Programme.[4]
Damiba died in Ouagadougou on 1 May 2024, at the age of 87.[5]