Célestin Monga appointed as Deputy Managing Director of ONUDI

On November 4, 2014, the United Nations Organisation for Industrial Development announced the appointment of Célestin Monga to the position of Deputy Managing Director of the UN organisation.

Before his appointment, the economist of Cameroonian origin worked at the World Bank for 13 years. As the economic Advisor to the Vice-President of the World Bank for the last few years of his tenure there, Célestin Monga worked in Cameroon’s banking sector and was introduced to the wider community in a letter to the Cameroonian authorities which left him embroiled in legal woes in 1990.

Exiled in the United States, Célestin Monga followed his previous education in France with further studies at the Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University.

An author of several works and editor of the economic section of the Encyclopaedia of Africa (2007), Célestin Monga taught at Boston University in the United States and Université de Bordeaux in France.