Aliou Mamadou DIA, the new Resident Representative of UNDP in Liberia, officially took up his post on 16 December 2024. Mr. DIA has over 20 years of work experience working on sustainable development issues in Africa with the United Nations. In his previous assignments, he served as UNDP Resident Representative in Togo and Cameroon. He also held a senior position as Africa Team Leader on Climate Change, Access to Energy, resilience and Crisis Prevention at the UNDP Regional Centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Prior to that he worked as Regional Advisor for Eastern and Southern Africa on Resilience building, Disaster Risk Reduction, Crisis Prevention and Recovery based at the UNDP Hub in Johannesburg, South Africa. In addition, he was employed by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) as a Regional Advisor for Disaster Risk Reduction in West Africa, based at ECOWAS in Abuja, Nigeria. Additionally, he worked as a Humanitarian Geographic Information Officer in the UNOCHA Regional Office for West and Central Africa, based in Dakar, Senegal. During his previous assignments, he assisted more than 30 UNDP offices and their government counterparts in Africa in executing their country programs and national development plans through a sustainable development framework. Mr. Dia holds a Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (DEA) in Geosciences and physical geography from Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal.