Abdelwahab Labidi

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Abdelwahab Labidi ( Arabic عبد الوهاب العبيدي, DMG ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-ʿAbīdī ; * April 22, 1929 ) is a Tunisian banker and was the second president of the African Development Bank (AfEB).

Life

Labidi studied law and began his professional career in 1957 as an Assistant Inspector at Credit Industriel et Commercial in Paris . From 1959 to 1960 he was Fondé de Pouvoir (authorized signatory) at the Bank of Tunisia . He then worked for the Tunisian National Agricultural Bank from 1960 to 1964, and from 1962 as the main auditor. In June 1964 he became manager of the Société Tunisienne de Banque. On September 1st of the same year he was recalled to Niger to join the development bank there, where he worked as managing director. In June 1969 he was elected Vice President of the AfEB.

When the then president of the AfEB, Mamoun Beheiry , suddenly resigned on January 19, 1970, Labidi was appointed interim president on January 21, 1970 by the board of directors . In August 1970 the Board of Governors elected Labidi as the new President on the recommendation of the Supervisory Board.

He was in office longer than the regular five-year term of office because the 37 states could not agree on a candidate on May 11, 1975 at the AfEB's annual congress in Dakar, Senegal . On the one hand, there were economic disagreements between the North African and sub-Saharan states, triggered by the oil price crisis of 1973, and on the other hand, after 11 years of arabophone leadership, the sub-Saharan states wanted a president "from their ranks", which Labidi, who could have run for another term, wanted , also looked like that. He recommended someone from the sub-Saharan states to be elected president, possibly someone from Ghana ; from his point of view the states from East Africa were not yet in a position to put forward a suitable candidate.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fondé de pouvoir - German translation - Linguee. Retrieved May 29, 2020 .
  2. ↑ United States Congress House Banking, Currency and Housing Committee: The African Development Fund: Hearing Before the Subcommittee International Development Institutions and Finance of ..., 94-1 on HR 4264 ..., HR 6241 ..., HR 6937. .., July 15, 1975 . 1975 ( google.de [accessed on May 29, 2020]).
  3. ↑ S. a Akintan: The Law of International Economic Institutions in Africa . BRILL, 1977, ISBN 978-90-286-0137-6 ( google.de [accessed on May 29, 2020]).
  4. ^ Thomas A. Johnson Special to The New York Times: Impasse at African Parley Hurts Arab-Black Accord . In: The New York Times . May 12, 1975, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed May 29, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Kwame Donkoh Fordwor: The African Development Bank: Problems of International Cooperation . Elsevier, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4831-8982-6 ( google.de [accessed on May 29, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Labidi, Abdelwahab
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tunisian banker and second president of the African Development Bank (AfEB)
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1929