The Council of Ministers of the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) met by videoconference on 15 July for an extraordinary session of the IOC Council of Ministers to appoint Prof. Vêlayoudom Marimoutou’s successor as head of the regional body’s General Secretariat.
Photo: Madagascar Ministry of Industry
Proposed by the Republic of Madagascar, Mr Edgard Razafindravahy has been appointed as the 10th Secretary-General of the IOC.
Mr Edgard Razafindravahy will take up the reins of the General Secretariat based in Ebène in the next few days. A graduate of ESSEC (France) in Business Management and Marketing, Mr Edgard Razafindravahy is well known in the economic landscape of the Big Island. Chairman and CEO of the PREY group, he operates in the media, with two daily newspapers, L’Express de Madagascar and Ao Raha, two radio channels and a television channel. His group also has a printing works and a flour mill. Since 2021 and until recently, Edgard Razafindravahy was Madagascar’s Minister of Industrialisation, Trade and Consumer Affairs. Mr Edgard Razafindravahy has also been involved in local and national politics, having served as President of the Ambohimalaza Avradrano Municipal Council from 1996 to 2004 and then President of the Antananarivo Special Delegation from 2009 to 2014 before becoming Minister.
This is good news for IOC member countries, which will have an “economic” profile in the executive for the next four years.
To be continued in our columns.
