أداما أواني

مستشار مستقل للتعليم من أجل التنميةFrom 2000 to 2011 he was Director of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) he greatly contributed to transform into a leading international center of excellence on literacy, adult and continuing education, nonformal education and lifelong learning. He designed and led a number of evidence-based research and publications as well as high level capacity-building and advocacy policy dialogues, seminars and workshops on literacy, nonformal education, lifelong learning and the issues of languages of instruction and multilingual education. He has published and edited extensively books and articles in renown journals on these topics. Three of the books he edited have been widely used and translated : Towards a Multilingual Culture in Education (1995) Why and How Africa should Invest in African Languages and Multilingual Education (2010), Optimizing Learning, Education and Publishing in Africa : The Language Factor (2011).

Following his retirement from UNESCO, he was Minister for Education, Literacy and National Languages in Mali (2012) and Administrator of OIF (Francophonie 2015-2019). Dr Ouane is recognized as one of the leading world expert and advocate in literacy, nonformal education and education in multilingual contexts. Dr Ouane was awarded honorific distinctions from some countries and institutions and is since 2008 Member of the University of Oklahoma Adult and Continuing Education HALL OF FAME.