Dr. Mady Biaye is the new UNFPA Representative in Angola

Since 11 December 2020, Dr. Mady Biaye has been the Representative of UNFPA in Angola. In the last decade, the new Chief for the organization has held prominent roles in the United Nations in different African countries. He replaced Florbela Fernandes in the position.

The taking over of Dr. Mady Biaye at the helm of UNFPA in Angola is the culmination of a long trajectory that includes a previous stop in Equatorial Guinea.  In this Central African country,  the statistician and demographer with more than 30 years of experience was the UNFPA Representative from 2016 to 2020 before arriving in Luanda to exercise the same role. In Equatorial Guinea, Dr. Mady Biaye was also the Acting United Nations Resident Coordinator and Designated Security Officer from 2018 to 2020, Acting WHO Resident Representative from June to December 2020, and COVID-19 Coordinator for the United Nations System/Coordinator Field Designated by MEDEVAC from March to November 2020.

From 2008 to 2016, he was Regional Technical Advisor on Population and Development, Data for Development and Population Data Policy at the UNFPA Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa. Earlier, from 2001-2008, he worked as UNFPA and UNECA Regional Technical Adviser in Population Data Collection, Analysis and Research at the UNFPA Country Technical Services Team (CST) for Southern Africa in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Before these positions, Dr. Mady Biaye worked from 1995 to 2001 as an Expert and Senior Consultant in various agencies of the United Nations system in Cabo Verde, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and Washington D.C. in the United States of America.

The long trajectory also includes the academic field. The new head of UNFPA in Angola was full-time Lecturer and Researcher at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) and at the International Center for Training and Research in Population and Development, in association with the United Nations (CIDEP), in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (1989 to 1994). From 1984-1987, he was Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Statistics and Demography at the National School of Applied Economics (ENEA). He also served as Assistant Professor at Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal, from 1984 to 1987.

Dr. Mady Biaye holds a Diploma of Engineer-Statistician from ENEA in Dakar, Senegal, and Bachelor’s, Master’s and Higher Doctorate’s Degrees from the Institute of Demography of the UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. He is proficient in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.