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Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta

Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta par Claude Truong-Ngoc décembre 2013 (cropped).jpg
President of Mali
Assumed office
4 September 2013
Prime Minister Django Sissoko (Acting)
Oumar Tatam Ly
Moussa Mara
Modibo Keita
Abdoulaye Idrissa Maïga
Preceded by Dioncounda Traoré (Acting)
Prime Minister of Mali
In office
4 February 1994 – 15 February 2000
President Alpha Oumar Konaré
Preceded by Abdoulaye Sékou Sow
Succeeded by Mandé Sidibé
President of the National Assembly
In office
16 September 2002 – 3 September 2007
Preceded by Aly Nouhoum Diallo
Succeeded by Dioncounda Traoré
Personal details
Born (1945-01-29) 29 January 1945 (age 72)
Koutiala, French Sudan
(now Mali)
Political party Alliance for Democracy in Mali (1990–2001)
Rally for Mali (2001–present)
Spouse(s) Keïta Aminata Maiga
Children 4, including Karim
Alma mater University of Dhakar
Pantheon-Sorbonne University
Religion Islam

Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (born January 29, 1945), or as he is often known, IBK, is a Malian politician who has been President of Mali since 2013. Previously he was Prime Minister of Mali from 1994 to 2000 and President of the National Assembly of Mali from 2002 to 2007. He founded a political party, Rally for Mali (RPM), in 2001. He was elected as President in the July–August 2013 presidential election and sworn in on 4 September 2013.

Keïta was born in Koutiala, Mali, a descendant of the founders of the medieval Empire of Mali. He studied at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly in Paris and Lycée Askia-Mohamed in Bamako, continuing his education at the University of Dakar, the University of Paris I and the Institut d'Histoire des Relations Internationales Contemporaines (IHRIC; Institute of the Modern History of International Relations). He has a Master's degree in History and an additional graduate degree in Political Science and International Relations.

After his studies, he was a researcher at the CNRS and taught courses on Third World politics at the University of Paris I. Returning to Mali, he became a technical consultant for the European Development Fund, putting together the first small-scale development program for the European Union's aid activities in Mali. He went on to become Mali director for the French chapter of Terre des hommes, an international NGO aiding children in the developing world.


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