 Mamadou Diaw has been an Associate Peace Corps Director for Senegal since 1993. Before joining Peace Corps, he worked with USAID and FAO projects in the area of reforestation, land use planning and cartography.
From 1984 to 1987, he worked for the FAO Village Reforestation Project as an Ecologist and Land Use Planner, designing village management plans. From 1987 to 1988, he led the Cartography Office of the Senegal Rural Forestry Project developing soil, vegetation, land use and land cover maps using aerial photographs. From 1988 to 1993, he served as Special Assistant of the SECID (South East Consortium for International Development) Chief of Party, a USAID contractor in Charge of the implementation of the Senegal Reforestation Project. In that capacity, he provided technical assistance to the project and served as a technical advisor for the SECID American team
Mr. Diaw earned his Master of Science in Forestry from the University of Florence, Italy in 1983 and a Post University Diploma in Cartography and Tropical Natural Resource Management from the Oversea Agriculture Institute of Florence in 1984. Born and raised in Dakar, Mr. Diaw is married and has four kids. He speaks French, Italian, English and Wolof.
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