He then pursued Master’s studies in Arts and Germanistik at the University of Graz, and graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna.
[2] He was also awarded a post graduate diploma in Education from the École normale supérieure in Dakar.
In January 2016, he was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the High-level Advisory Group for Every Woman Every Child.
[6] In response to the West African Ebola virus epidemic, Ban also appointed him to the Global Health Crises Task Force in 2016 for a period of one year; the group was jointly chaired by Jan Eliasson, Jim Yong Kim, Margaret Chan and Helen Clark.
[7] From 2018 to 2022, he co-chaired (alongside Gro Harlem Brundtland) the joint World Bank/WHO Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB).