Al-Hamndou Dorsouma is currently the Ag. Director and Manager for Climate and Green Growth within the African Development Bank. He is responsible for managing a team of Climate Change/Growth and Climate Finance Officers and leading Bank’s efforts on climate change and green across Africa.
Prior to this, Mr. Dorsouma worked as Officer-In-Charge of the Bank’s Climate Finance Division, leading Bank’s climate finance initiatives. He also 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 for the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) from 2012 to 2014 as Senior Programme Manager for Resource Mobilization and Development Partnerships.