Amadou Cissé

Amadou Boubacar Cissé ( born June 29, 1948 in Niamey; Nickname: ABC ) is a Nigerien politician, civil engineering and bank managers. Cissé worked from 1982 as a traffic expert for the World Bank. In 1995 and from 1996 to 1997 he was Prime Minister of Niger. From 2002 to 2008 he served as Vice President of the Islamic Development Bank. Since 2011 he is planning Minister of Niger.

Life

Amadou Cissé comes from a Fulani family of Say. His father Boubacar Cissé was a manager and politician of the Nigerien Progressive Party (PPN - RDA). Amadou Cissé attended primary school Ecole Neuve and the National Lycée in Niamey, where he obtained his baccalaureate. In France, he first completed classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles of Mathematics. He was trained in Paris as a civil engineer and graduated with a degree in Development Economics at the Paris Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques. At the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris Cissé earned the degree of Doctor of Engineering with a thesis on dams and dykes. He was involved in the Association of Black African students in France and was a member of the Office of Niger student and student Federation of the Scolaires Nigeriens.

Cissé worked from 1975 to 1976 in France in the field of road construction planning and as a researcher at the Paris Central Laboratory for bridge and road, where he wrote a study on the use of cement for laterite. In 1976 he went back to Niger, where he received the post of chief engineer for civil engineering departments of Maradi and Tahoua. He took over the following year nationwide the line for road construction and served as chief engineer for the work on the road from Tahoua to the newly constructed uranium Arlit. From 1979 he was director of buildings in the Nigerien Ministry of Works, Transport and urban planning. The World Bank appointed Cissé 1982 to her Deputy Representative in Niger. In 1983 he moved as an engineer at the headquarters of the World Bank in Washington, DC, where he was responsible for transport projects in Benin, Ivory Coast, Guinea- Bissau and Chad until 1986. He also worked as a consultant at the Institute for Development Economics World Bank on African transport policy. From 1986 he was a senior engineer for the Transportation Department in the Sahel countries of the World Bank. Cissé rose to chief engineer in 1989 at the headquarters of the World Bank. He led the co-financed by the World Bank transport programs in sub-Saharan Africa and represented the World Bank in international bodies. He was appointed principal in charge of the operations of the World Bank in central Africa in 1992. He was also a member of the Nigerien Party National Movement of the Development Society ( MNSD - Nassara ).

In Niger, President Mahamane Ousmane lost by the Democratic and Social Rally ( CDS Rahama ) the parliamentary majority, as the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism ( PNDS - Tarayya ) left the government coalition. Ousmane was forced to appoint a representative of the opposition party MNSD - Nassara, which was the party winning most votes in the National Assembly as prime minister. He made ​​an attempt to split the MNSD - Nassara, and not appointed Hama Amadou, the MNSD - Nassara preferred candidate, but on February 7, 1995 outsiders Amadou Cissé prime minister. The attempt of the President failed. Already on 10 February 1995, Cissé because he had the appointment arrived, excluded from the MNSD - Nassara. On February 20, 1995, he was deposed by a vote of no confidence in the National Assembly as Prime Minister. He was succeeded by Amadou Hama. Cissé returned then to the World Bank in Washington, DC back. Under President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, the Mahamane Ousmane and Amadou Hama was deposed by a military coup, Amadou Cissé was brought in as Minister of State for the Economy, Finance and Planning back to the government of Niger on 23 August 1996. On 21 December 1996, the President appointed him again as prime minister. At the founding congress of Baré Maïnassaras new party Alliance for Democracy and Progress ( RDP - Jama'a ) in August 1997, Cissé was elected deputy party chairman. As prime minister, Cissé scored in March 1997 an agreement between the Nigerien government with his former employer, the World Bank, were among the massive budget cuts in the public sector. This led to the resistance of the trade unions and lengthy strike that paralyzed the government's work. On 24 November 1997 the President Cissé's deposed government. Cissé was first again in 1998 for the World Bank in Washington, DC active. President Baré Maïnassara was killed in a coup in April 1999. Amadou Cissé announced his intention to stand as a candidate in the presidential elections in Niger in 1999 for the RDP - Jama'a, the deputy party chairman, he was still. He introduced himself thus against the party chairman Hamid Algabid who harbored the same ambitions. A court ruled in favor Algabids. Cissé was excluded from the RDP - Jama'a. He then founded on 10 September 1999, a new party, the Union for Democracy and Republic ( UDR - Tabbath ) with itself as party chairman. In the presidential elections, he supported Mahamadou Issoufou, the unsuccessful candidate of the PNDS - Tarayya. Cisse stepped up to the parliamentary elections in Niger in 1999 in the constituency Tilabéri, but the UDR Tabbath missed a place in the National Assembly.

Amadou Cissé returned then the Nigerien politics tentatively back and worked on again in late 1999 for the World Bank in Washington, DC. On 23 October 2001 he was elected Vice President of the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah. He held this post from 2002 until his retirement in 2008. Cissé returned to Niger back, reactivated his party UDR Tabbath and joined the opponents of President Mamadou Tandja ( MNSD - Nassara ). After Tandja fall, he stood as a candidate in the presidential elections in Niger 2011 for the UDR Tabbath. He was eighth with 1.61% of votes in the first ballot. In the runoff election, he supported Mahamadou Issoufou again ( PNDS - Tarayya ), who won this time around. President Issoufou appointed Cissé 2011 as the Minister of State for Planning, Planning and Community Development. As part of a government reshuffle in August 2013 Cissé lost the ministries of Planning and Community Development and has been Minister of State for Planning.

Honors

• Knight of the National Order of Chad