{"id":29198,"date":"2026-01-08T14:57:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/?page_id=29198"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:21:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:21:03","slug":"abdallahi-cheikh-sidia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/abdallahi-cheikh-sidia","title":{"rendered":"Abdallahi O. Souleymane O. Cheikh-Sidia &#8211; Minister of Economy and Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Abdallahi O. SOULEYMANE O. CHEIKH-SIDIA\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29201 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Abdallai.Souleymane-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Abdallai.Souleymane-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Abdallai.Souleymane.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><br \/>\nBorn in 1961 in Boutilimit<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2013 Original Mahdharian studies (Holy Quran, grammar and morphology of classical Arabic, classical Arabic poetry and metre, Fiqh, etc.)<br \/>\n\u2013 Doctorate in Economics (Honours: Very Honourable with Distinction), University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France) \u2013 2009<br \/>\n\u2013 International Diploma in Public Administration with the title of Former Student of the National School of Administration (ENA \u2013 France \u2013 Ren\u00e9 CHAR Promotion) \u2013 1994<br \/>\n\u2013 Graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po Paris \u2013 Section: Economics and Finance) \u2013 1986<br \/>\n\u2013 Postgraduate Diploma (D.E.A) in Economic Analysis and Policy (University of Rouen \/ Upper Normandy \u2013 France) \u2013 1985<br \/>\n\u2013 Master&#8217;s Degree in Economics (2nd in the class) \u2013 University of Dakar (Senegal) \u2013 1983<br \/>\n\u2013 Baccalaureate Series \u2018D\/Scientific\u2019 (Grade: Quite Good), Lyc\u00e9e National de Nouakchott (Mauritania) \u2013 1979<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professional experience in Mauritania:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2013 Director General of the National Health Insurance Fund (CNAM) 2023 \u2013 2024,<br \/>\n\u2013 Minister of Finance (August 2005 \u2013 April 2007)<br \/>\n\u2013 Minister of Economic Affairs and Development (May 2003 \u2013 July 2004)<br \/>\n\u2013 Director of Programming and Studies at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Development (February 1998 \/ April 2003)<br \/>\n\u2013 Deputy Director of Planning at the Ministry of Planning (April 1992 \u2013 August 1993 and February 1995 \u2013 January 1998)<br \/>\n\u2013 Head of the Planning Department at the Planning Directorate of the Ministry of Planning and Employment (January 1990 \u2013 March 1992)<br \/>\n\u2013 Lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Economic Sciences, University of Nouakchott (1986\/1987 and 1987\/1988)<\/p>\n<p><strong>International professional experience:<\/strong><br \/>\nSince August 2007: Senior Economic Adviser at the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development \/ AFESD \u2013 (Kuwait)<br \/>\nEconomic Advisor at FADES \/ Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development \u2013 [March 2005 \/ August 2005] \u2013 (Kuwait)<br \/>\nExpert \/ Economist \u2013 (World Bank \/ Resident Mission in Mauritania \/ January 1988 \u2013 November 1989)<br \/>\nGovernor for Mauritania at the World Bank, the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD), the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), etc. (2003\/2004 and then 2005\/2007)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdallahi O. 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CHEIKH-SIDIA\u00a0 Born in 1961 in Boutilimit Education \u2013 Original Mahdharian studies (Holy Quran, grammar and morphology of classical Arabic, classical Arabic poetry and metre, Fiqh, etc.) \u2013 Doctorate in Economics (Honours: Very Honourable with Distinction), University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France) \u2013 2009 \u2013 International Diploma in Public Administration with the title [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29198","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29202,"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29198\/revisions\/29202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}