Humanitarian and development leader, author and coach
Adama Coulibaly is Global Programs Director at Oxfam International, based in Nairobi. He oversees humanitarian, development and influencing work across Oxfam’s regions and countries, and represents the organisation in several international humanitarian forums.
His career spans more than 30 years in Africa and globally. He has served as Regional Director for West and Central Africa with both Plan International and Oxfam, as UNICEF Principal Adviser for the Sahel, and as Country Director for the International Rescue Committee in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He began his career as an engineer with Plan International in Guinea.
A water and sanitation engineer by training, Adama also holds a Global MBA and is a certified transformational coach. He is the author of L’Odyssée du Leadership: 24 leçons pratiques tirées d’expériences vécues and writes on leadership, localisation and decolonising aid.
His interest in Fulfilling Jobs for Peace comes from three decades of seeing what happens when decisions, resources and opportunities move closer to people, and what happens when they do not.
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