OSIWA Newsletter

Each issue of OSIWA News features articles that probe the issues facing West Africans in their efforts to build open societies.
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NEW BOARD CHAIR FOR OSIWA

Open Society Initiative of West Africa (OSIWA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Elhadj Amadou G. Sy (Senegal) as its new Board Chair effective May 2007. He replaces Abdul Tejan-Cole (Sierra Leone) who has been Board Chair since 2002. Elhadj Amadou G. Sy is the Director of Communication and External Relations with UNAIDS Geneva. He had until May 2007, been the Director of the HIV/AIDS Group, Bureau for Development Policy of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). He joined UNDP from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) where he held the positions of Director, Operational Partnerships and Country Support and Regional Director for Africa. Prior to working for the GFATM, he served as Director of UNAIDS New York Liaison Office, (coordinating the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS) and Team Leader for the UNAIDS Inter-country Team for Eastern and Southern Africa. His work in his Native Senegal included Director of Health Programs at ENDA Tiers Monde (Environment and Development Action in the Third World), co-founder of the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) and Director of its African Chapter (AFRICASO). The new Board Chair holds degrees in Arts, Human Sciences and Pedagogy from Dakar University and Ecole Normale Superieure. He is a fellow at the University of Graz (Austria) and a graduate of the Vienna Diplomatic Academy. The other members on the OSIWA Board are Ayo Obe (Nigeria), Mary Laurene Browne (Liberia), Elsa Wentling (Togo), Emelia Arthur (Ghana), Halidou Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso), Cheikh Saad Bouh Kamara (Mauritania), Aicha Bah Diallo (Guinea), and Issa Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso).