Dr. Mohammed Mwamadzingo


Guest speakers per committee: Oudemanhuispoort, Saturday 9th

Second Committee

10.00 – 11.15 am – Global financial crisis threatens the vulnerability of least developed countries
Dr. Mohammed Mwamadzingo
Mohammed Mwamadzingo joined the Bureau for Workers’ Activities of the International Labour Organisation (ILO/ACTRAV) in 1997. He has been based at the Regional Office for Africa in Abidjan, at the Eastern Africa Multidisciplinary Advisory in Addis Ababa, at the Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa in duty station, Harare, Zimbabwe, and in ILO Area Office Pretoria, South Africa until March 2008. He was appointed the Senior Economist at ILO’s headquarters in Geneva in March 2008. Before coming to the ILO, he worked as a lecture in economics at the University of Nairobi in Kenya. During this period, he undertook numerous consultancy assignments with various organisations including the World Bank, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, United Nations University, UNESCO, International Development Research Centre, DANIDA, local companies, the Government of Kenya, and the ILO.