User:Akohou D. Rodrigue

Rodrigue D. Akohou is from the Republic of Benin. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Benin in 2005, after he graduated with a Masters in Political Science and International Relations from the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the University of Abomey-Calavi (Benin). He also graduated with an MBA in 2010 from Maastricht School of Management (Netherlands). He participated in the United Nations – Nippon Foundation Fellowship Programme for training in the fields of the Law of the Sea and Maritime Affairs. He has been appointed since 2013 as the Assistant to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). Prior to that he led the Treaties Section of the Department of Legal Affairs as well as the desk of Partnerships and Cooperation of IRIES – the “Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies”, under the MOFA of Benin. Offshore oil Exploration, Ocean Governance and Management, Maritime Security, and Maritime Economics are its specific fields of interest in which he is involved at national level as member of Governmental Technical Committees (in formulating the “National Strategy for the Maritime Protection and Security of Benin”), also as a Trainer as part of the French technical assistance programme ASECMAR set up, among others, for national administrations capacity-building for the Enhancement of State Action at Sea (Action de l’Etat en mer).