Lazare Eloundou Assomo | |
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| Director of the World Heritage Centre | |
| Assumed office 6 December 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Mechtild Rössler |
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| Born | 1968 Cameroon |
Lazare Eloundou Assomo is an architect and heritage advisor from Cameroon,who,in 2021,was the first African to be appointed head of UNESCO's World Heritage Centre.
Assomo graduated from the Grenoble School of Architecture in 1996 and worked as a researcher there at the Centre for Earthen Construction. [1] Early project he worked on were praised by Nelson Mandela for their community-centred approaches. [2] He joined UNESCO in 2003 and worked on the implementation of the African World Heritage Fund, [1] and the World Heritage Earthen Architecture Program. [3]
From 2008 to 2013 he led the Africa Unit of World Heritage Centre,and from there joined UNESCO's Bamako office, [4] and in 2014 was appointed to lead its Mali office. [1] He worked on the reconstruction of mausoleums in Timbuktu that were destroyed by al-Qaeda. [5] In 2016 he returned to the World Heritage Centre as Deputy Director of the Heritage Division,before being appointed in 2018 Director of Culture and Emergencies. [1]
In December 2021 he was appointed Head of the World Heritage Centre by Audrey Azoulay,replacing Mechtild Rössler. [3] He is the centre's fifth director and the first African to hold the position. [6] [5] [7] He has been outspoken on the subject of the study of "colonial heritage" in Africa. [8]
AndréAzoulay is a Moroccan Jewish senior adviser to king Mohammed VI of Morocco. He previously advised Mohammed's father,king Hassan II. He currently presides over the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue Between Cultures,based in Alexandria,Egypt. He is also President of the executive committee of the Foundation for the Three Cultures and the Three Religions,based in Seville,Spain,a founding member of the C-100 Davos Forum for the Dialogue of Civilisations and religions,and was formerly Executive Vice-president of the BNP Paribas,Paris. His daughter is UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay.
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