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Kamissa Camara

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Kamissa Camara
Chief of Staff ofPresident of Mali
In office
11 June 2020 – 24 September 2020
PresidentIbrahim Boubacar Keïta
Minister of the Digital Economy and Planning
In office
5 May 2019 – 10 June 2020
Prime MinisterBoubou Cissé
Preceded byArouna Modibo Touré
Foreign Minister of Mali
In office
9 September 2018 – 23 April 2019
Prime MinisterSoumeylou Boubèye Maïga
Preceded byTiéman Hubert Coulibaly
Succeeded byTiébilé Dramé
Personal details
BornGrenoble,France
CitizenshipMali,United States,France

Kamissa Camara(born 27 April 1983) is aMalianpolitical analyst and politician. She is the former chief of staff to the President of Malian Republic after she resigned from the position on September 24, 2020.[1]

She served as the country'sMinister of Foreign Affairsfrom September 9, 2018 to April 23, 2019, then Minister of the Digital Economy and Planning from May 5, 2019 to June 11, 2020.[2]

Early life and education[edit]

Camara was born inGrenobleto Malian parents who had emigrated toFrancein the 1970s.[3]

Camara has a BA in applied foreign languages fromParis Diderot Universityand an MA in international economics and development fromPierre Mendès-France University.[4]She did an internship at theUnited NationsinWashington, D.C.in 2005 and spent a year inConcord, New Hampshireas anau pair.[5]In 2007, she did an internship at theAfrican Development BankinTunisia,[5]before obtaining aGreen cardand moving to theUnited States,living there for eight years.[3]

Career[edit]

From 2007, Camara worked at theInternational Foundation for Electoral Systemsoverseeing West Africa[3]and was one of the observers for the2013 Malian presidential electioninTimbuktu.[6]She moved to theNational Endowment for Democracyin 2012, where she was promoted to vice director for Central and West Africa in 2016.[3]She also worked for a time with US presidential candidateHillary Clinton.[6]

Camara was a member of the Center for African Studies atHarvard Universityuntil December 2017.[7][8]She was also the Director for Sub-Saharan Africa at theNGOPartnersGlobaluntil June 2018.[8][9]She has written opinion pieces and political analysis for various publications in English and French[8][10]and has been a political commentator on English and French TV programs.[9]She was the first Malian political scientist to appear onCNN.[5]

Camara is the founder and co-chair of theSahelStrategy Forum.[4]In 2017, she wrote a letter to Mali'sPresidentIbrahim Boubacar Keïta,asking him to withdraw his plans to change theconstitution.[11]In July 2018, he appointed her as his diplomatic advisor.[4][7]She was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs by Keita on 9 September 2018, the first woman and youngest person to hold the post,[4]and one of eleven women in the thirty-two member cabinet.[4]She has spoken about the issues of regional security and alleged human rights violations.[12]As of December 2018, when she gave a speech to theUnited Nations General AssemblyinMarrakechdeploring the withdrawal of some countries from theGlobal Compact for Migration,she was the world's youngestForeign minister.[13]

Personal life[edit]

Camara is a citizen of France, the US and Mali,[14]and is fluent inFrench,EnglishandBambara.[8]She is married.[14]

References[edit]

  1. ^"Mali: Kamissa Camara nommée secrétaire générale de la présidence – Jeune Afrique".12 June 2020.
  2. ^"Mali: Le nouveau gouvernement de Boubou Cissé dévoilé – Jeune Afrique".5 May 2019.
  3. ^abcd"Kamissa Camara: le portrait de la nouvelle conseillère diplomatique d'IBK"(in French). Malijet. 14 July 2018.Retrieved23 January2019.
  4. ^abcdeWaweru, Nduta (11 September 2018)."Meet Kamissa Camara, Mali's youngest and first female minister for foreign affairs".Face 2 Face Africa.Retrieved23 January2019.
  5. ^abc"Mali/Portrait de Mme Kamissa Camara: Qui est la nouvelle ministre des affaires étragères et de la coopération Internationnale?".Bamada.net. 10 September 2018.Retrieved23 January2019.
  6. ^ab"Kamissa Camara, a new breath for Malian diplomacy - RFI".RFIPalled.International News. 11 September 2018.Retrieved23 January2019.
  7. ^abKouassi, Carole (13 September 2018)."Jeunes femmes ministres: le Mali au diapason du Zimbabwe et du Botswana".Africa News(in French).Retrieved23 January2019.
  8. ^abcd"Kamissa Camara, 35 ans, Nouvelle Ministre Des Affaires Étrangèes du Mali".Afrique Femme(in French). 11 September 2018.Retrieved23 January2019.
  9. ^ab"Kamissa Camara".The African Development Conference at Harvard.
  10. ^"Articles written by Kamissa Camara".World Politics Review.7 April 2017.
  11. ^"Kamissa Camara".West Africa Brief. 12 October 2018.Retrieved23 January2019.
  12. ^"Mali FM Kamissa Camara on rebels, human rights and Sahel security".Al Jazeera.22 December 2018.Retrieved23 January2019.
  13. ^"Mali: Kamissa Camara, ministre des affaires étrangères et de la coopération internationale:" Le Pacte mondial offre une opportunité pour un meilleur encadrement du phénomène migratoire "" Aujourd'hui, la communauté malienne à l'étranger est estimée à 4 millions de personnes "".Mali ACTU. 15 December 2018.Retrieved23 January2019.
  14. ^ab"Kamissa Camara, un nouveau souffle pour la diplomatie malienne".RFI Afrique(in French). 11 September 2018.Retrieved23 January2019.

External links[edit]

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