Cheikh Tidiane Sy
| Cheikh Tidiane Sy | |
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| Minister of State for Justice | |
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In office 18 May 2005 – 19 June 2007 |
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| President | Abdoulaye Wade |
| Prime Minister | Macky Sall |
| Preceded by | Serigne Lamine Diop |
| Minister of State for the Interior | |
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In office 19 June 2007 – 14 October 2009 |
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| President | Abdoulaye Wade |
| Prime Minister | Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré, Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye |
| Preceded by | Ousmane Ngom |
| Succeeded by | Bécaye Diop |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
January 11, 1938 Saint-Louis, Saint-Louis Region, French West Africa (AOF) |
| Nationality | Senegalese |
| Political party | Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) |
| Profession | Professor of Sociology and Development; Diplomat |
Cheikh Tidiane Sy (born 11 January 1938) is a Senegalese politician and official. During the presidency of Abdoulaye Wade, he was Minister of Justice from 2005 to 2008, Minister of the Interior from 2008 until October 2009, then Minister of Justice once more, from 2010 to 2012.
After completing his studies at the North school and the Faidherbe lycée in Saint-Louis, Sy was a school headmaster in Popenguine from 1957 to 1959. From July 1959 until August 1961, he was head of the Central Bureau of Rural Administration in the Ministry of Planning and Development.
From September 1961 to December 1965, he reprised his studies, in France, at the Collège coopératif on rue Las Cases in Paris, at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and in the Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences at the Sorbonne. He received a diploma from the Collège coopératif of Paris, a diploma from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, a bachelor's in arts (English), and a doctorate from the École pratique des hautes études with a thesis entitled "Moorish Traditionalism and Rural Modernisation in Senegal: Contribution to the Study of Links between Socialism and Islam in Under-Developed Countries."
From December 1965 to June 1966, Sy was professor of the sociology of development and director of studies at the École nationale d'économie appliquée (ENEA) in Dakar, Senegal. From July 1966 to July 1968, he was a research associate at the Centre for African Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). From July 1968 to June 1970, he was the cultural advisor of the Senegalese embassy in Great Britain. From July 1970 to March 1972, he was Secretary General of the Association of African Universities in Accra, Ghana.
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