• Lead Agriculture Expert, Agriculture and Agro-Industry Department OSAN
• African Development Bank

Benedict is Lead Agricultural Expert in the Agriculture and Agro-Industry Department (OSAN) of the African Development Bank.

He is an Agricultural Economist with more than twenty years of diverse national and international experience, including in designing, managing and evaluating successful agricultural and allied investment projects and programmes in Africa. Some 19 years of such experience was gained responsibly in the service of the African Development Bank in various capacities spanning multiple countries and regions of Africa.

He also held positions of Senior, then Principal Agricultural Economist, followed by Country Operations Officer from 1997 to 2009 with the Bank. Prior to joining the Bank, Benedict served the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Zimbabwe. Benedict earned a Master of Science Degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Arizona and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture from the University of Sierra Leone.

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