Al-Hamndou Dorsouma

Al-Hamndou Dorsouma is currently the Ag. Director and Manager for Climate and Green Growth Division within the African Development Bank. He is responsible for managing a team of Climate Change and Growth Officers and leading Bank’s efforts on climate change in Africa, including building climate resilience and low carbon opportunities into Bank’s investments, and supporting Bank’s engagement on climate resilience and green growth. His academic background is Geography and Environmental Management.

Recently, Mr. Dorsouma worked as the Officer-In-Charge of the Bank’s Climate Finance Division, leading Bank’s climate finance initiatives, including the Green Climate Fund, the Global Environment Facility and the Climate Investment Funds, among others. Before that, he worked as the Team Leader for Energy Efficiency under the AfDB’s Presidential Task Force on the New Deal on Energy for Africa, after serving at various positions at the AfDB since 2009, including as Chief Climate Change Officer.

He also worked for two other international organizations, namely the Observatory of Sahara and Sahel (OSS) from 2005 to 2009 as Environment and Climate Change Officer and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) from 2012 to 2014 as Senior Programme Manager for Resource Mobilization and Development Partnerships.