AfDB announces special advisor role for Gauthier Boulard

The African Development Bank has appointed Gauthier Boulard as Director and Special Advisor in the Office of the President, effective 1 January 2021. 

In his new role, Boulard will support President of the African Development Bank Group Akinwumi Adesina to strengthen partnerships and engagements with multilateral development banks, international institutions and global initiatives to coordinate international financing for development. He will also support the president in outreach efforts to strengthen relations and engagements with non-regional member countries of the Bank Group and to promote the development priorities targeted by Bank Group strategies.

Boulard has over 20 years of experience on multilateral development banks and international institutions, gained from his employment in the national civil service and in international bodies. He joined the AfDB for the second time in November 2015 as Chief Resource Mobilization Officer in the sovereign division of the Resource Mobilization and External Finance Department. 

In early 2019, he was appointed as Manager for the same division, where he worked on coordinating African Development Fund replenishments and monitoring, culminating in the successful 15th replenishment at the end of 2019.