Mamadou Dia
Title: Country Director for Cote d'Ivoire and Guinea, Africa Region
Company/Organization: The World Bank
Program: African Graduate Fellowship Program (AFGRAD)
Degree: Master's in Business Administration (M.B.A.)
Year Completed: 1969
Mr. Mamadou Dia, a native of Senegal, earned a master's in business administration from the Wharton School of Business under the African Graduate Fellowship Program (AFGRAD). Currently, Mr. Dia is the Country Director for Cote d'Ivoire and Guinea, Africa Region at the World Bank, in which he is based in the Abidjan Country Office. He has held this position since January 2000. Mr. Dia joined the World Bank in 1976, and has held several positions, including Country Director for Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia at the World Bank from 1996 to 2000 and Chief of the Capacity Building and Implementation Division from 1990 to 1996. In this position, Mr. Dia was instrumental in the creation of the Public Enterprise Unit in West Africa which developed into an important unit for public sector management and capacity-building in the Africa Region.
Mr. Dia is an international specialist in public sector management in Africa. In his book, Africa's Management in 1990s and Beyond, he proposes an analytic framework which takes into account the influence of culture in resolving some of Africa 's management issues. His approach has been adopted and adapted by the World Bank as a component of its overall agenda for enhancing institutional capacity in Africa.
Before joining the World Bank, Mr. Dia held several high government and public offices, including Economic Advisor to the Head of State and the former Prime Minister and President, Abdou Diouf. Mr. Dia also was CEO and Director General of several state or private enterprises, including HLM, and Régie Nationale des Chemins de Fer et Banque Sénégalo-Koweitienne.