page_title: Modibo Ibrahim Touré
section_title: United Nations
hierarchical_section_title: Modibo Ibrahim Touré / Career Overview / United Nations
caption_attribution_description: English: SRSG Modibo I. Toure and President Faure E. Gnassingbe of Togo, following a bilateral meeting on 3 April 2018.
context_page_description: Touré was the former Malian Minister in Charge of New Technologies, Telecommunications and Post Office from March 2011 to March 2012. Modibo Ibrahim Touré is a citizen of the Republic of Mali and was born in 1959. On 1 November 2018, he was appointed Special Envoy for Shareholder Relations at the African Development Bank. Prior to his current appointment at AfDB, Touré served as Under Secretary General and Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau until May 2018.
context_section_description: On 5 May 2016, former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon appointed Touré as his Special Representative (SRSG) and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS) , a position which he held until May 2018.  In this role, which he assumed at the height of the political and institutional impasse in Guinea-Bissau, he was charged with, inter alia, overseeing the implementation of UNIOGBIS' mandate in Guinea-Bissau, as determined by the UN Security Council Resolutions 2267 (2016), 2343 (2017) and 2404 (2018). He was responsible for the broader oversight of the UN country team in Guinea-Bissau, providing critical counsel to national authorities and other political actors and conducting good offices on behalf of the UN Secretary-General at the national and regional level to promote political stability, national dialogue, social cohesion, gender mainstreaming in line with UN Security Council Resolutions, as well as the protection and promotion of human rights in Guinea-Bissau. Touré was also responsible for mobilizing, harmonizing and coordinating international assistance to Guinea-Bissau, working closely with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) as the lead sub-regional organization leading the mediation process in Guinea-Bissau as well as with the African Union (AU), Community of Portuguese Language Speaking Countries (CPLP), and the European Union (EU) and other bilateral partners. In his capacity as SRSG, Touré spearheaded UN support to ECOWAS-led mediation efforts in Guinea-Bissau. The combined efforts of both institutions led to the breakthrough of a near three-year long institutional impasse in Guinea-Bissau following an ECOWAS Extraordinary Summit on Guinea-Bissau, held on 14 April 2018 in Lome, Togo under the chairmanship of then Chairperson of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, H.E. Faure Eyadema Gnassingbe, President of the Togolese Republic.  
  Prior to his role as SRSG for Guinea-Bissau, Ban Ki-Moon appointed Touré served Assistant Secretary General (ASG) and Special Adviser to the United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region, a position he held from May 2013 to April 2016. As ASG in Nairobi, Kenya, Touré worked closely with the then Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region, Mary Robinson, to support her initiatives towards ensuring the monitoring and implementation of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the region, signed on 24 February, in Addis Ababa .  
  Between January to May 2013, Touré was the United Nations Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and UNDP's acting Resident Representative in Kenya. In this capacity, he led and coordinated the UN country Team in support for the 2013 general elections in Kenya. Between July to December 2012, he served as Assistant Secretary General (ASG) and Acting Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General at the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (BINUCA). 
  From October 2005 to April 2006, Touré was a member of the UNDP Transition Team established by Kemal Dervis, the new Administrator of UNDP, and later, served as Team Leader of the Regional Bureau for Africa (RBA) Management and Review Team established by the new Director, Regional Bureau for Africa (MoRev).  
  
  From 2001 to 2004, Touré served as Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Chad. He assumed these same functions between August 2004 and August 2005 in Ethiopia. In Rwanda and Djibouti, Touré served as UNDP's Deputy Resident Representative from February 1998 to March 1999 and from January 1994 to January 1997, respectively. From January 1991 to January 1994, Touré  served as Programme Officer and later, as UNDP's Assistant Resident Representative in Burkina Faso.
caption: United Nations SRSG Modibo I. Toure and the Chairperson of the ECOWAS Authority, President Faure E. Gnassingbe of Togo, following a bilateral meeting on 3 April 2018
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