Benjamin Camara is an economist and statistician engineer. Before joining IDEV, he worked in the areas of strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation, economic and sectoral studies, production and information analysis in Guinea with the African Development Bank, at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Ministry in charge of Planning. He also worked as a temporary teacher at the Mahatma Ghandi University in Conakry from 2014 to 2018.
At the AfDB’s Country Office in Guinea, he worked as a consultant in charge of economic and social studies elaborating the Guinea Country Report of the African Economic Outlook (2018), the Country Strategy Paper (CSP) for 2018-2022, the Completion Report of the Country Strategy Paper (CSP) for 2012-2016/2017. He was also seconded as an AfDB consultant to support the Ministry in charge of Planning.
He has also been a consultant with UNDP where he elaborated the Priority Support Program for the Sustainable Development of the N’zérékoré Region (2018-2020) and the triennial Investment Plan. Benjamin has also worked for the National Institute of Statistics of Guinea.
Benjamin graduated from the National School of Statistics and Applied Economics of Abidjan (ENSEA).