Previous chairs of ALMA

Since our formation in 2009, a sitting African Union Head of State or Government has chaired ALMA. Our current chair is President Advocate Duma Gideon Boko, President of the Republic of Botswana.

His Excellency Umaro Sissoco Embaló
President of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau from
2020 to present

ALMA Chair from September 2022 to February 2025

His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta
President of the Republic of Kenya from 2013 to 2022

ALMA Chair from January 2020 to August 2022

His Majesty King Mswati III
King of the Kingdom of Eswatini from 1986 to present

ALMA Chair from January 2017 to January 2020

His Excellency Idriss Déby Itno
President of the Republic of Chad from 1990 to 2021

ALMA Chair from January 2016 to January 2017

His Excellency Hailemariam Dessalegn
Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia from 2012 to 2018

ALMA Chair from July 2014 to January 2016

His Excellency Armando Emílio Guebuza
President of the Republic of Mozambique from 2005 to 2015

ALMA Chair from May 2013 to June 2014

Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
President of the Republic of Liberia from 2006 to 2018

ALMA Chair from January 2012 to May 2013

His Excellency Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete
President of the United Republic of Tanzania from 2005 to 2015

Founding ALMA Chair from September 2009 to January 2012