Candidate for the post of Director, Telecommunication Development Bureau
Hamadoun TOURE
Regional General Manager
ICO Global Communications
CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal Profile | |
Surname : | Touré |
First name : | Hamadoun |
Nationality : | Malian |
Date of birth : | 3 September 1953 |
Residential address : | 222 Aries Street, Waterkloof Ridge, Pretoria 0181, South Africa |
Marital status : | Married |
Dependants : | Four children |
Languages : | Songhaï, Bambara, French, English, Russian |
Contact numbers : | +2712 481 9001 (W) +2712 481 9009 (Fax) +2782 655 8055 (Cell) |
Qualifications : | Master's degree in Electrical Engineering (1979) |
Present position : | Regional General Manager ICO Global Communications |
Employment profile | |
1996 (July) to present : | Regional General Manager - Africa ICO Global Communications, London & Pretoria |
1994-1996 : | Group Director, Africa & Middle
East INTELSAT, Washington, D.C. |
1990-1994 : | Regional Director, Africa INTELSAT, Washington, D.C. |
1986-1990 : | Telecommunications Officer,
INTELSAT Assistance and Development Program (IADP), INTELSAT, Washington, D.C. |
December 1985 : | Telecommunications Officer,
INTELSAT Business Planning Department |
October 1985 : | Chief of Satellite Communications
Section Coordination activities between OPT and TELEMALI |
1985 : | Manager, Sulymanbougou II earth station, Bamako, Mali |
1981-1984 : | Engineer in charge of operation and maintenance of the Sulymanbougou II earth station, Bamako |
1980 : | International Switching Centre, Bamako |
October 1979 : | Microwave Terminal, Bamako Telecom I project, PANAFTEL project |
EDUCATION | |
June 1979 : | Telecommunication Engineering Diploma with title of Master of Science in Engineering |
1974-1979 : | Electrotechnical Institute of
Telecommunications of Leningrad, (now St. Petersburg), Russia Faculty: Transmissions |
1973-1974 : | Moscow State University Preparatory Faculty |
1973 : | Baccalauréat, Lycée Askia
Mohamed, Bamako Sciences Exactes Terminales |
ACTIVITIES IN MALI (1979-1985)
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ACTIVITIES WITH INTELSAT
(1985-1996)
Hamadoun Touré was with INTELSAT, the world's largest commercial satellite communications organization where he occupied various positions as Telecommunications officer in the technical assistance division, Director Africa Region and Group Director for Africa and the Middle East. |
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Management of regional
activities for Africa & Middle East
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ACTIVITIES WITH ICO GLOBAL
COMMUNICATIONS (since 1996)
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GENERAL | |
Has participated in numerous
projects, studies, assistance programmes, conferences and meetings
with RASCOM, PANAFTEL, AFROSAT, ITU, CAPTAC, CAPTEF, INTELSAT's
Board of Governors, assemblies of parties, meetings of signatories
and Africa Groups I and II.
Has actively participated in the formulation of telecommunication development policy. A team player, has successfully worked in multicultural organizations. Sound management skills: has successfully managed annual revenue budgets of over $US 115 million at INTELSAT. |
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Hobbies Afro-Cuban music Martial arts |
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