MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

• 1996-to present:
  
  
  • Senior strategic advisor on investments, finance, and private sector growth in Africa
    
    
  • Member of several high level panels of the AU, the NEPAD, the ECA, Global Coalition for Africa, UNDP and other UN agencies
    
    
  • Ambassador at large of Senegal
    
    
  • Member of the AFRICA FORUM an organization recently established by former African Heads of State and Government and other African leaders to support the implementation of the broad objectives of the AU and its initiative the NEPAD
    
    
• 1985-1995 - Elected President of the African Development Bank (ADB) Group in May 1985; unanimously re-elected, following a remarkably successful five (5) year tenure, by the Bank's 75 member countries for a second five year term which expired on August 31, 1995. At the end of his tenure of services, he was conferred by the Governors of the Institution the title of Honorary President of the African development Bank
  
  
• 1980-1985 - Vice-President of Finance, African Development Bank.  Introduced the Bank to the major international capital markets of Europe, the USA, Japan and the Far East.  Masterminded and rationalized the financial policies and operations of the Bank, and obtained AAA ratings, from Standard &Poor's, Moody's, and Fitch Investor's services for its bonds issuances.  For this accomplishment, he was named "Banker of the Year"  in December 1984 by the influential London- based International Financial Review

• Diplôme de l'Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, Toulouse, France  
  
  
• Diplôme de l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques "Sciences Po"  Paris, France
  
  
• Diplôme du Centre d'Etudes Bancaires et Financières, Paris, France 
  
  
• Diplôme d'Etat d'Expertise Comptable, Paris, France