Abdalla Hamdok
| Abdalla Hamdok | |
|---|---|
| Education | BSc, MA, PhD[1] |
| Alma mater | University of Khartoum, University of Manchester[1] |
| Occupation | administrator[1][2] |
| Known for | Deputy Executive Secretary of UNECA 2011–2018[1][2] |
| Title | Dr[1] |
Abdalla Hamdok (also: Abdallah[3], Hamdouk[3]) is a Sudanese public administrator who served in numerous international administrative positions during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.[1] From 2011 to October 2018 he was Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).[1][2] UNECA staff described Hamdok as "a true Pan-Africanist, a diplomat, a humble man and a brilliant and disciplined mind".[2] Hamdok was suggested as a likely candidate for Prime Minister of Sudan for the 2019 Sudanese transition to democracy.[3][4]
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Education
Hamdok obtained a BSc degree from the University of Khartoum, MA and PhD degrees from the University of Manchester.[1]
Administration
Hamdok was a senior official in the Sudanese Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning during the 1980s.[1]
In the 1990s, Hamdok held senior positions first at Deloitte & Touche and then at the International Labour Organization in Zimbabwe, followed by several years at the African Development Bank in Côte d'Ivoire. Hamdok was the Regional Director for Africa and the Middle East of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance from 2003 to 2008.[1]
Hamdok worked briefly for the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in 2001 and 2002 as Director of Regional Integration and Trade[2] and from 2011 to October 2018 was the Deputy Executive Secretary of UNECA.[1][2] UNECA staff described Hamdok as "a true Pan-Africanist, a diplomat, a humble man and a brilliant and disciplined mind".[2]
In September 2018, Hamdok was named as Minister of Finance under the al-Bashir presidency of Sudan, but refused the nomination.[5]
Points of view
In 2014, Hamdok argued that Africa was capable of food self-sufficiency, but that 300 million Africans were hungry. He referred to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) estimate of the effects of a 2 degree Celsius global average warming above pre-industrial levels, stating that effects such as reduced rainfall could prevent Africa from "the ultimate goal of reducing extreme poverty and ending hunger". Hamdok proposed switching "from subsistence agriculture to agriculture as a business ... more dynamic, commercial oriented." Hamdok proposed infrastructure improvements such as methods of transforming, storing and transporting excess produce to markets, the use of "climate information", improved water management and integration with national industry, science and technology research institutions and activities.[6]
2019 Sudanese transition to democracy
Suggestions were made in June 2019 by a spokesperson of the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) and in August 2019 by The Sudan Daily that Hamdok would be proposed as Prime Minister of Sudan by the FFC, which negotiated the 2019 Sudanese transition to democracy with the Transitional Military Council.[3][4] The transition procedures were formally defined in the Political Agreement signed on 17 July 2019 by the FFC and TMC[7][8] and the Draft Constitutional Declaration signed by the FFC and the TMC on 4 August 2019.[9][10]
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