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Kamissa Camara

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Kamissa Camara
Chief of Staff of President 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 a Malian political 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's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 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

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Camara was born in Grenoble to Malian parents who had emigrated to France in the 1970s.[3]

Camara has a BA in applied foreign languages from Paris Diderot University and an MA in international economics and development from Pierre Mendès-France University.[4] She did an internship at the United Nations in Washington, D.C. in 2005 and spent a year in Concord, New Hampshire as an au pair.[5] In 2007, she did an internship at the African Development Bank in Tunisia,[5] before obtaining a Green card and moving to the United States, living there for eight years.[3]

Career

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From 2007, Camara worked at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems overseeing West Africa[3] and was one of the observers for the 2013 Malian presidential election in Timbuktu.> She moved to the National Endowment for Democracy in 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 candidate Hillary Clinton.

Camara was a member of the Center for African Studies at Harvard University until December 2017.[6][7] She was also the Director for Sub-Saharan Africa at the NGO PartnersGlobal until June 2018.[7][8] She has written opinion pieces and political analysis for various publications in English and French[7][9] and has been a political commentator on English and French TV programs.[8] She was the first Malian political scientist to appear on CNN.[5]

Camara is the founder and co-chair of the Sahel Strategy Forum.[4] In 2017, she wrote a letter to Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, asking him to withdraw his plans to change the constitution.[10] In July 2018, he appointed her as his diplomatic advisor.[4][6] 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.[11] As of December 2018, when she gave a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in Marrakech deploring the withdrawal of some countries from the Global Compact for Migration, she was the world's youngest Foreign minister.[12]

Personal life

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Camara is a citizen of France, the US and Mali,[13] and is fluent in French, English and Bambara.[7] She is married.[13]

References

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  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. ^ a b c d "Kamissa Camara : le portrait de la nouvelle conseillère diplomatique d'IBK" (in French). Malijet. 14 July 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d e Waweru, Nduta (11 September 2018). "Meet Kamissa Camara, Mali's youngest and first female minister for foreign affairs". Face 2 Face Africa. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  5. ^ a b c "Mali/Portrait de Mme Kamissa Camara: Qui est la nouvelle ministre des affaires étragères et de la coopération Internationnale?". Bamada.net. 10 September 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  6. ^ a b Kouassi, Carole (13 September 2018). "Jeunes femmes ministres : le Mali au diapason du Zimbabwe et du Botswana". Africa News (in French). Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  7. ^ a b c d "Kamissa Camara, 35 ans, Nouvelle Ministre Des Affaires Étrangèes du Mali". Afrique Femme (in French). 11 September 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  8. ^ a b "Kamissa Camara". The African Development Conference at Harvard.
  9. ^ "Articles written by Kamissa Camara". World Politics Review. 7 April 2017.
  10. ^ "Kamissa Camara". West Africa Brief. 12 October 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  11. ^ "Mali FM Kamissa Camara on rebels, human rights and Sahel security". Al Jazeera. 22 December 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  12. ^ "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. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
  13. ^ a b "Kamissa Camara, un nouveau souffle pour la diplomatie malienne". RFI Afrique (in French). 11 September 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
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