After getting my Bachelor in high school John F. C Kennedy in Dakar, I left to continue my studies in Toulouse, Rennes and Montpellier in France. These studies have been finalized by a Master in Chemistry and an Engineering Degree in Science and Technology of Food Industries.

Then I started my career in 1983 as an engineer in big Senegalese companies in food-processing sector. (SIPL and SONACOS).

This experience continued in 1987 in the Senegalese administration (Ministry of Commerce, Senegalese Institute for Standardization), then in 1991 in the first structures supporting the private sector, financed by the French Cooperation and the World Bank (Support Unit to the Business Environment and Private Sector Foundation).

Finally, after several years of entrepreneurial experience in strategy consulting, I was appointed in 2000 Managing Director of APIX, National Agency for Investment Promotion and Major Projects, I handled the creation and the management until May 2012.

Today, I'm Lead Advisor-Office of the Vice-President Infrastructure, Private Sector and Regional Integration at African Development Bank. In addition, I am a member of the Board of Directors of Atos.

The particularity of my profile is in one hand the both science and managerial course and in another hand the public-private mixed experience, strengthened by international standards development partners.