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Mr. Lancina Karambiri is an experienced international development finance officer with 15 15 years’ experience in financial management for major food security and donor-funded international development programs in Africa. He has hands-on experience managing financial aspects of Title II Development Food Aid Programs in Niger, Mauritania, and Zimbabwe.

Mr. Karambiri is actively involved in regular financial reporting to donor agencies including USAID, DFID, KFW, CDC, Global Fund, CIDA, Bill & Melinda: subcontract, sub-grant, and cost-share management; preparing commodity legers and reconciling monetization proceeds; program start-up and close-out; and comparing actual expenses to budgets to provide variance analyses.

As Senior Finance Officer at CNFA, Mr. Karambiri was the lead financial manager covering two of CNFA’s major projects, Ethiopia Agricultural Growth Program-Livestock Market Development ($ 43 million ) funded by USAID, and the Zimbabwe Amalima Development Food Aid Program ($35 million) , funded by USAID/FFP. In other roles, he has provided home office financial backstopping to development projects in Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger, Angola, Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda, Sudan, Cameroon, Ethiopia, and Mauritania.

From 2010 to 2011 he prepared, evaluated, and tracked more than $50 million budget and business plans from programmatic perspective of major donors, including USAID, Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KFW), Global Fund, DOD, and the Dutch Government.

Between 2003 and 2007, Mr. Karambiri provided financial and administrative support tothe World Health Organization at their African headquarters in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis in 46 African countries with a portfolio over $ 100 million. He negotiated $30 million HIV drug purchases and arranged for distribution of the drugs to the 46 African countries, enabling 3 million HIV/AIDS patients access to universal coverage via free drug distribution in 22 HIV/AIDS disease burdened African countries.

Mr. Karambiri has an M.S. in Public Administration and a Bachelor in accounting both from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and he is fluent in English, French, and Bambara.