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BIOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\nPersonal Information\"\"<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Name: Aissata Lam.
\n\u2022 Date and Place of Birth: October 16, 1985, Bogh\u00e9.
\n\u2022 Marital Status: Married, mother of one child.<\/p>\n

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Professional Profile:<\/strong>
\nAreas of Expertise<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Strategy and economic development.
\n\u2022 Promotion of investments and public-private partnerships.
\n\u2022 Economic diplomacy.
\n\u2022 Development financing.
\n\u2022 Climate risk management and resilience building.
\n\u2022 Strategic communication and stakeholder relations management.
\n\u2022 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) standards and economic inclusion.
\n\u2022 Private sector development in Africa.
\n\u2022 Investor relations and fundraising.<\/p>\n

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Academic Background<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 2025\u20132026: Master\u2019s in Public Administration, Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Fellow in the Executive Leadership Initiative (ELI) and recipient of the Edward S. Mason Fellowship.
\n\u2022 2012\u20132014: Graduate studies at Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in finance and organizational behavior.
\n2005\u20132008: Bachelor of Business Administration from HEC Montr\u00e9al, with a double major in Corporate Finance and International Business, including an international exchange program at the Bordeaux School of Business in France in 2007.
\n\u2022 2024\u20132025: Preparatory year at HEC Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n

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Executive Education Programs<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 2025: \u201cLeadership for the 21st Century\u201d program, Harvard Kennedy School.
\n\u2022 2021\u20132022: Executive Education Certificate from the United Nations Environment Leaders Program, in collaboration with the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and the Herti School.
\n\u2022 2022: Desmond Tutu Fellowship, University of Oxford \u2013 Sa\u00efd Business School.<\/p>\n

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Professional Experience<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 October 10, 2026: Appointed Minister of Fisheries, Maritime and Port Infrastructures.
\nApril 2021 \u2013 October 2025: Director General of the Mauritanian Investment Promotion Agency (APIM), Nouakchott, Mauritania.
\n\u2022 April 2017 \u2013 March 2021: Regional Director for West and Central Africa at the African Risk Corporation (ARC), Johannesburg, South Africa, and Abidjan, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire.
\n\u2022 September 2014 \u2013 April 2017: Program Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Nouakchott, Mauritania.
\n\u2022 January 2012 \u2013 April 2014: Founding President of the Mauritanian Youth Chamber of Commerce (JCCM-iLab), Nouakchott.
\n\u2022 January 2011 \u2013 January 2012: Underwriting and Insurance Officer at Liberty Underwriters International (LIU), Montreal, Canada.
\n\u2022 May 2009 \u2013 January 2011: Underwriting and Insurance Manager at Royal & Sun Alliance (RSA), Montreal, Canada.<\/p>\n

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Honors, Awards, and International Participation<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 2023: Selected for the World Economic Forum\u2019s Young Global Leaders program.
\n\u2022 2022: Desmond Tutu Fellowship, African Leadership Institute and Sa\u00efd Business School, University of Oxford.
\n\u2022 2020: Knight of the Order of National Merit, Islamic Republic of Mauritania.
\n\u2022 2019: Selected for the BBC\u2019s list of the 100 Most Influential Women in the World.
\n\u2022 2019: Member of the G7 Advisory Council on Gender Equality.
\n\u2022 2015: Recipient of the Award of Excellence for Emerging Leaders from the Montreal School of Business.
\n\u2022 2014: Recipient of the International Award for Active African Women (TIFAA).
\n\u2022 2010: First-place winner in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
\n\u2022 2009: Finalist in the Case Competition at the University of Navarra, Spain.
\n\u2022 2009: Silver medalist at the Trade Games, International Business category, Canada.
\n\u2022 2008: Finalist in the John Molson Undergraduate Case Competition, Canada.<\/p>\n

\nMembership on Boards of Directors and Advisory Bodies<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Member of the Board of Directors of the Arab Youth Leaders Organization, Government of Dubai.
\n\u2022 Member of the Board of Directors of UNESCO\u2019s \u201cWomen Artists of the World\u201d organization.
\n\u2022 Member of the Board of Directors of the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C.
\n\u2022 Member of the G7 Advisory Council on Gender Equality in 2019.<\/p>\n

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Public Service and Leadership<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Since September 2019: UNICEF Ambassador and Advocate in Mauritania.
\n\u2022 Since March 2020: Member of the National Committee for Monitoring the Solidarity Fund to Combat COVID-19.
\n\u2022 Since May 2023: Ambassador for the African Women in Business Finance Initiative (AFAWA), affiliated with the African Development Bank.
\n\u2022 Since December 2023: Co-founder of the \u201cLa Maison du Terroir\u201d project.<\/p>\n

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Articles and Publications<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 March 2024: \u201cPromoting Digital and Inclusive Finance in Africa,\u201d an opinion piece published by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
\n\u2022 December 2022: \u201cTravelogue \u2013 Mauritania: A Journey Through Mauritania During the COVID-19 Pandemic,\u201d a photo book that reached the final round of the Egger Award for Best African Photo Book of 2024.
\n\u2022 March 2019: \u201cEmpowering Women Entrepreneurs in Africa,\u201d an op-ed published in Jeune Afrique magazine.
\n\u2022 September 2019: Contributed to the official report of the Biarritz Partnership for the G7, which reviews initiatives and reforms aimed at promoting gender equality during France\u2019s G7 presidency.
\n\u2022 2015: Contributed to several technical publications by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on social protection, food security, and resilience in the Near East and North Africa region.<\/p>\n

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Languages<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Fluent in French.
\n\u2022 Fluent in English.
\n\u2022 Professional-level Spanish.
\n\u2022 Basic knowledge in Arabic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BIOGRAPHY Personal Information \u2022 Name: Aissata Lam. \u2022 Date and Place of Birth: October 16, 1985, Bogh\u00e9. \u2022 Marital Status: Married, mother of one child.   Professional Profile: Areas of Expertise \u2022 Strategy and economic development. \u2022 Promotion of investments and public-private partnerships. \u2022 Economic diplomacy. \u2022 Development financing. \u2022 Climate risk management and resilience […]<\/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-33984","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33984","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=33984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33987,"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33984\/revisions\/33987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}