Mr Annadif is Assistant Secretary-General and has been the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Mali and the Head of the United Nations Integrated Multidimensional Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) since January 2016.


Mr Annadif has vast and wide-ranging experience at national, regional and international levels.

Mr Annadif was Chad’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1997 to 2003, Chief of Staff to the President of the Republic from 2004 to 2006 and Secretary-General to the Presidency from 2010 to 2012.

Mr Annadif also served as Permanent Representative of the African Union Commission to the European Union from 2006 to 2010. From 2012 to 2014, he was the African Union Special Representative and Head of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).

In the course of his career, Mr Annadif has participated in several peace processes in Africa, including in Niger, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and Sudan.

Mr Annadif has an engineering degree in telecommunications from the École Polytechnique de Madagascar.

Born in 1956, Mr Annadif is married and has six children.
 

Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Mali, Head of MINUSMA
Participation in the sessions of the Forum