Abdoul Mbaye
| Abdoul Mbaye | |
|---|---|
| Prime Minister of Senegal | |
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In office 5 April 2012 – 1 September 2013 |
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| President | Macky Sall |
| Preceded by | Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye |
| Succeeded by | Aminata Touré |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
13 April 1953 Dakar, Senegal |
| Political party | Independent |
| Alma mater |
University of Dakar HEC Paris University of Paris |
Abdoul Mbaye is a Senegalese banker and politician who was Prime Minister of Senegal from April 2012 until September 2013. He is a technocrat who was appointed prime minister by President Macky Sall following the latter's win in the 2012 presidential election.
Abdoul Aziz Mbaye is born on was born on 13 April 1953, in Dakar. He is the son of judge Keba Mbaye, dead in 2007, who was the first president of the Supreme Court of Senegal, president of the Constitutional Council, a member of the International Olympic Committee and of the International Court of Justice. Abdoul Mbaye is the eldest in a family of three brothers and five sisters, including Cheikh Tidiane Mbaye, CEO of Sonatel.
Abdoul Mbaye studied in Senegal at the University of Dakar and at France's HEC Paris and Paris-Sorbonne University. He is also a graduate of Cheikh Anta Diop University.
In 1976 he joined the Central Bank of West African States as an economist in the research department, before becoming the International Monetary Fund's Director of the Division of Planning in 1981. He also worked in Ivory Coast at some point. He then took over as CEO of Banque de l’Habitat du Sénégal in 1982. In 1990 he was a part of the restructuring team for BIAO-Sénégal, then becoming CEO of the re-modeled Compagnie Bancaire de l'Afrique Occidentale, where the bank initiated the first company leasing in Senegal and started the first investment fund in west Africa.
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