Maimouna Diallo Baillet

Maimouna Diallo Baillet has nearly five years of experience at the Central Bank of West African States, searching for various ways to finance the economic development of the West African Monetary Union, a union which includes eight countries. Among her responsibilities as a Project Developer, she worked on developing small and medium enterprise (SME) financing, evaluated the projects of the West African Development Bank, and designed new regulations to develop private equity in the region. Prior to that, she was a financial analyst in Paris for six years. Currently, Maimouna has just been relocated from Dakar to Abidjan as a Bank Supervisor. Maimouna is a founding member of a NGO providing free corrective surgery for children and adults with cleft lips and palates in Niger, Togo, and Burkina Faso.’Upon completion of the Mandela Fellowship, her goal is to create an NGO dedicated to women’s rights in Africa. She studied in France and holds a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Finance. She is driven by her thirst for learning from each other to find a way to develop Africa based on all the wealth and the skills available and a desire to build a world for her daughters full of tolerance, justice, and equality.