International Fund for Agricultural Development: Announcing the New Director, OPV
December 7, 2014
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) president made an announcement today.
It is with great pleasure that I am able to announce that Perin Saint Ange, the current Director of the Eastern and Southern Africa Division (ESA), has agreed to become the Director of the Office of the President and Vice-President and Chief of Staff. Perin will take up his new responsibilities effective 1 February 2015.
Perin has had a long and successful career, both within IFAD, FAO and in the external public and private sectors. Perin joined IFAD in 1998 as a Country Portfolio Manager in what was then the Africa I division, going on to become a Country Programme Manager and then a Loans Officer in the Office of the Controller. In 2007 he returned to Africa I (which later became WCA) as a Portfolio Advisor, before becoming the Director of ESA in 2012. Prior to joining IFAD, Perin’s extensive experience included serving as the Director General of the Ministry of Agriculture in his home country of Seychelles, as well as an Agricultural Economist at the FAO Investment Centre, carrying out various assignments as an economist and natural resource management and agricultural specialist.