Kamissa Camara

Camara was born in Grenoble to Malian parents who had emigrated to France in the 1970s. She did an internship at the United Nations in Washington, D.C. in 2005 and spent a year in Concord, New Hampshire as an au pair. As of 2024, she was completing a DPhil in political science at the University of Oxford. ==Career==

From 2007, Camara worked at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems overseeing West Africa She was also the Director for Sub-Saharan Africa at the NGO PartnersGlobal until June 2018. She has written opinion pieces and political analysis for various publications in English and French and has been a political commentator on English and French TV programs. Camara is the founder and co-chair of the Sahel Strategy Forum. In July 2018, he appointed her as his diplomatic advisor. She was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs by Keita on 9 September 2018, the first woman and youngest person to hold the post, As of December 2018, when she gave a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in Marrakech deploring the withdrawal of some countries from the Global Compact for Migration, she was the world's youngest Foreign minister. Since 2023, Camara has been a professor of practice in international dipolomacy in the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. She has been a member of the board of Afrobarometer since 2024. ==Personal life==

Camara is a citizen of France, the US and Mali, and is fluent in French, English and Bambara. ==Selected publications==