N'DIAYE Soukeyna
Independent Director
A graduate in Sociology and specializing in management, Soukeyna N'Diaye Bâ was Minister of Decentralized Cooperation and Regional Planning of Senegal, responsible for regional and local economic development, from November 2002 to May 2005.
Founding member in 1987 and President of Femme Développement et Entreprise en Afrique (FDEA), the first microfinance institution for women entrepreneurs in the informal sector in Senegal, she is a specialist in microfinance.
She has acquired over 20 years of experience in international development through United Nations agency programs and in various regional and international institutions in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Soukeyna is currently Executive Director of the INAFI International Foundation, a global network of more than 300 microfinance institutions from the countries of the South, whose international secretariat is based in Dakar (Senegal).
