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KORDJE BEDOUMRA, CHAD

Bedoumra, 63, serves as minister of finance and budget of the Republic of Chad since October 2013. He is responsible for the preparation and implementation of government policy in financial, budgetary and fiscal and improved public finance management system.

He also served as secretary-general of the presidency from February to October 2013. Before that, he was minister of planning, economy and international cooperation from February 2012 to February 2013. In this role, he initiated, conducted and finalised the preparation of the National Development Plan (NDP) 2013-2015.

Bedoumra initiated the methodological approach and concept note for the development of the President’s Vision of the Republic for Chad till 2025. He worked for the establishment and improvement of a climate dynamic mutual trust between the government and the technical and financial partners.

He is the source of a series of reforms that enabled Chad to get an agreement, in August, with the IMF under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF).

He has enjoyed a long international experience of a 29-year career at the AfDB, including 16 years in management positions, where he rose through the ranks to the post of vice president from March 1983 to February 2012.

His long career at bank has helped him to secure several positions of responsibility, such as leading the design and implementation of economic and social development of strong programmes and projects in Africa, and the institutional reform of the bank.

As vice-president in charge of institutional services, he led the management communications technology services and led the preparation of return of the bank to its headquarters in Abidjan, having served as secretary-general of the bank.

He holds a diploma of the National School of Telecommunications engineer Telecommunications (Sup Telecom) in Paris (France), in 1979; Electronics Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and Automation of the Faculty of Sciences of the Université Paul Sabatier-Toulouse (France) in 1977 and the Baccalaureate Series C (with honors) at the Lycée Félix Eboué in June 1972 (N’Djamena, Chad).

In 2014, Bedoumra served as chairman, board of directors of the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) and chairman of the Ministerial Committee for the Monetary Union of Central Africa (UMAC).

In October of 2014, he was elected the chairman of the board of governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank during the Annual Meetings of these two institutions in Washington.