Mohamed Abdellahi EBBE Mauritanian born in 1964 graduated in 1984 with an engineering diploma from the Higher Institute of Agriculture in Baghdad-Iraq and in 2008 a Ph.D. in Life and Earth Science from Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes de Paris (EPHE).

He has published or contributed to more than 100 publications or joint-publications, including some thirty scientific articles and books. He co-supervised several MSC and PHD students in Maghreb  and Europe. He has consulted extensively for regional and international organizations. He has extensive experience working with NGOs. He has a proven ability to advocate and mobilize resources. He has obtained half dozen of national, regional and international awards. He joined the Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) in May 2017, as the Director of the Sahel Institute. At the same time, he is active in the voluntary scientific international societies, where he is Executive Director of the International Orthopterist Society and elected member of complexe System Digital Campus of (UNITWIN/UNESCO. He is fluent in Arabic, French and English and understands Italian, Peulh and Wolof.