Damondgou Amed Martin Lompo

Damondgou Amed Martin Lompo has over seven years of experience in fields such as human rights promotion and protection, gender, decentralization and governance, community development processes, and project management. Damondgou Amed Martin Lompo now works as junior gender consultant in the bureau of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, where he focuses on activities aimed at improving women’s political participation in Africa. Since 2008 he has also been the deputy secretary general in the national bureau of the Association of Peoples Living with Albinism in Burkina Faso. Martin holds a master’s degree in International Law from the University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and several certificates in International Law and Human Rights from University of Geneva, Switzerland, and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France. Upon completion of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, Martin plans to continue his work in gender equality issues but also on the promotion and protection of people with disabilities’ rights.