Aminata Touré

Aminata Touré ( born October 12, 1962 in Dakar ) is a Senegalese politician, human rights activist and former UN functionary. Since September 2013, it is Prime Minister of Senegal.

Life and education

The daughter of a physician and a midwife, she enjoyed an extensive training. The first school years were spent in the town of Tambacounda, in the practice of her father. She then attended the High School Gaston Berger in Kaolack She completed her education with honors and was awarded in 1981, the commercial college at the Van Vollenhoven school in Dakar. She studied in France and received a Master of Arts in Dijon, a professionally-oriented master's degree (DESS ) in Business Management in Aix -en- Provence and a PhD degree in International Financial Management from the École Internationale de Management in Paris.

Her professional career began in 1988 at the headquarters of SOTRAC, the Society for public transport in Dakar, where she led the Marketing and Communications Department.

In the early 1990s, she headed for the Asbef ( Association pour le bien -être sénégalaise familial) programs in the field of health and family. From 1995 onwards, she worked for the United Nations Population Fund ( UNFPA). First she was sent as a senior technical advisor to the Ministry of Family Affairs in Burkina Faso. They also went to consultancy work for the UNFPA as coordinator of the HIV program in the French-speaking West African countries. In particular, they advocated for family planning and reproductive health.

In 2003 she was appointed in New York as Director of the Human Rights Division of UNFPA. Reside in New Jersey and the UNFPA, she left in 2010 to work again as a politician in Senegal.

Your assets, which consists of two properties in Senegal and another in the U.S. is estimated at around 1.2 million euros .. She is divorced from Oumar Sarr, a government minister Abdoulaye Wade.

Political career

Their political involvement began at the age of 14 years when she became active in left-wing student circles. She became a member of the communist workers' movement in Senegal (LCT ), later the Movement for Socialism and unit ( MSU).

On the occasion of the campaign for the Senegalese presidential election, 1993 she was the first female campaign manager of Senegal on behalf of Landing Savané.

In 2010 she ended her cooperation with the United Nations in New York City to return to Cabinet as director of Macky Sall, President of the Alliance pour la République, on the political stage of Senegal. In 2011 she participated in the preparation of its election manifesto for the 2012 presidential election.

Under Prime Minister Abdoul Mbaye, she has served as the successor of Cheikh Tidiane Sy, the Office of the Minister of Justice. Her main concern was to reform the legal system in Senegal. During the first months of her tenure she led, as requested by President Sall, the fight against the corruption of the previous regime. As a key player was Karim Wade, son of the former president.

On September 1, 2013 President Macky Sall dismissed all the ministers from office and appointed Aminata Touré as Prime Minister. The next day, they began to form a government.