1. Amadou Hott was born on 25 October 1972 and is the former Special Envoy of the President of the African Development Bank for the Alliance for Green Infrastructure in Africa.
18 Facts About Amadou Hott
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Amadou Hott is currently candidate for the Presidency of the African Development Bank.
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Amadou Hott is a Senegalese economist and investment banker, and served as Minister of Economy, Planning and International Cooperation of Senegal in the Fourth Sall government from April 2019 to September 2022.
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Amadou Hott was formerly the Vice President of the African Development Bank's Power, Energy, Green Growth and Climate Change Complex, a position he held from November 2016 until his Senegalese government appointment.
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Amadou Hott was born in Thiaroye Gare and spent his youth in the suburbs of Dakar.
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Amadou Hott completed his primary and secondary education at Khaliy Madiakhate Kala primary school in Guediawaye and Pikine Est secondary school, respectively.
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Amadou Hott then completed a postgraduate degree in financial markets finance and banking management at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University and subsequently enrolled in a master's degree program in applied mathematics at New York University through an academic exchange program.
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Amadou Hott started his career at Societe Generale in New York before joining BNP Paribas in London as an investment banker.
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Amadou Hott then worked at the Dutch bank ABN AMRO where he focused on the African continent.
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In 2006, Amadou Hott left Europe to settle in Dubai where he worked at the Millennium Finance Corporation as a Managing Director working in mergers and acquisitions and financing for the African continent.
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Two years later, Amadou Hott became Managing Director of UBA Capital, the Investment Banking arm of the UBA Group in Lagos.
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In 2012, Amadou Hott was appointed Special Advisor to the President of the Republic of Senegal, Macky Sall, in charge of financing and investment issues, and then chairman of the Board of Directors of AIBD.
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Amadou Hott became vice-president in charge of the African Development Bank's activities in the areas of Power, Energy, Climate and Green Growth for both public and private sectors in November 2016.
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Since April 2019, Amadou Hott has been Minister of the Economy, Planning and Cooperation of Senegal.
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In December 2022, Amadou Hott became a special envoy of the president of the African Development Bank.
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In November 2024, Amadou Hott officially launched his candidacy for the presidency of the AfDB.
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Amadou Hott was nominated Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2012.
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Since 2015, Amadou Hott has been a member of the Selection Committee for the Tony Elumelu Foundation which supports the $100 million African entrepreneurship program.