Martin Tsounkeu

General Qualification:

  • Development and Corporate Economist
  • Financing for Development Expert
  • International Development and Business Consultant
  • University Lecturer and Corporate Trainer (Project Management)

Private sector Experience (more than 15 years): .

  1. Marketing Agent in the Brewery Sector in Cameroon (Societe Anonyme des Brasseries du Cameroun - SABC).
  2. Bank Executive in Cameroon (Banque Intrnationale pour l’Afrique Occidentale - BIAO)
  3. Cost Controller in the Oil Exploration and Production Sector (Efl Aquitaine)

Civil Society Contribution and Experience (30 years): .

  1. President and General Representative, “Africa Development Interchange Network (ADIN ), a Network for Development in Africa; .
  2. Global Activist for susainable management of Forestry resources in Cameroon”;
  3. Member, International Trade-Finance Steering Group
  4. Member, Global Financing for Development (FfD) Work Group .
  5. Member, Global Socio Economy Group (GSEG), Coordinator, African Wing (GSEG-Africa) .
  6. Civil Society Focal Point (2003 UNDP progress Report on MDGs in Cameroon;
  7. Member, Commonwealth Foundation's Working Groups on the MDGs
  8. Co-author, Commonwealth Report on MDGs (Breaking with Business as usual: Perspective from the Civil Society in the Commonwealth on the MDGs (Cameroon’s National ,2005),
  9. Member, Commonwealth Foundation team at the Barbados 2005 CFMM on the MDGs, .
  10. Member, Drafting committee, Civil Society Statement, 2006 Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting (CFMM)
  11. Contribution, Commonwealth Foundation publication on Innovative Development Financing Mechanisms: “Breaking with the Taboo” .
  12. Global Civil Society Representative, Technical Committee of the Leading Group to defnine Innovative Development Financing (Dakar, April 2008).
  13. Civil Society Member, Assisting Technical Committee to the 2009-2010 Chairman of the Commonwealth Ministerial Debt Sustainability Forum CMDSF).