APA-Nouakchott (Mauritania) The new Mauritania prime minister Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdhaf was until his appointment the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Belgium and European Union.

Before his diplomatic career started in late 2006, he coordinated the Belgian financed “Integrated Development Project of Hodh Chargui\" between 2000 and 2006.

He worked as an international consultant between 1997 and 2000 and before that as an expert at the Centre for Industrial Development (TDCI) of the ACP (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific) states and the European Union (1991-1997).

He was in charge of selecting adapted technologies for the development of ores at the TDCI, searching for European partners and institutions to finance identified projects.

He was in charge of developing the mining resources of the ACP states, particularly the implementation of the mining and industrial part of the Lome Convention.

He wrote and published practical guides on increasing the value of mining resources of the ACP states and developing the phosphates of Mauritania, Senegal, Mali and Togo.

Between 1989 and 1991, he was a trainee at the European Commission’s Science, Research and Development department in charge of the follow-up of the ERASMUS program for European universities. The programme encourages and supports academic mobility of higher education students and teachers.

Aged 51, Laghdhaf is married and has four children.