Doctor. J. Peter Pham.
Dr. J.W.H. Bolder has been appointed Special Representative of the United States of America for the Sahel region. Peter Pham will lead the presidential delegation that will attend the inauguration of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on July 7. January in Parliament.
The ambassador of the United States of America to Ghana, Stephanie S. Sullivan will be part of the delegation, the State Department spokesman said.
He said that in addition to the initiation activities, Dr. Pham will participate in bilateral meetings with senior Ghanaian government officials and representatives of civil society, reaffirming the strong partnership between the United States and Ghana in the areas of regional peace and security, economic development and democratic governance.
Dr. Pham will be in residence in Ghana from 5 to 8 January 2021.
He was appointed first. March 2020 as the first American special envoy for the Sahel in Africa.
The president handed it to him on the 29th. September 2020 the personal rank of ambassador.
Ambassador Pham is responsible for coordinating US engagement with international and regional partners, including G5 countries in the Sahel and ECOWAS member states, to counter the threat from violent extremist organisations (VEOs) and to prevent the impact of the VEO threat on other regions, and to support the implementation of the Algiers Agreement and regional efforts to stabilise the region along the border between Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.
Ambassador Pham used to be the US Special Envoy for the African Great Lakes Region from 2018 to 2020. Prior to his appointment to the State Department, Dr. Pham was Vice President and Director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council.
Previously, he was vice president of the National Committee on U.S. Foreign Policy and editor of the Journal of American Foreign Policy Interests, which is published bimonthly.
Mr. Pham was also appointed assistant professor of law, political science and Africana studies at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he also served as director of the Nelson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
He is the author of more than 300 essays and reviews and the author, editor or translator of more than a dozen books, mainly on African history, politics and economics.
From 2008 to 2017, Dr. Pham was Vice President of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), an academic organization representing more than 1,300 scientists studying the Middle East and Africa at more than 300 colleges and universities in the United States and beyond.
In 2015, the Regency of the Smithsonian Institution elected Dr. Pham to the Board of Directors of the National Museum of African Art, where he currently holds the position of Vice President.
Mr. Pham received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from Gregorian University, as well as postgraduate degrees in history, law, international relations, and theology.
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