Youssuff Sylla

Director General Guinea Alumina Corporation

Youssuff Sylla is Director General and Director of Human Capital of Guinea Alumina Corporation (GAC) after serving as the com-pany’s Commercial Director since 2019. He has over 20 years of experience across Africa, Europe, and North America, which in-cludes 13 years in the mining sector and five years with a finan-cial institution in Canada. He has worked for Rio Tinto before joining Glencore in the Republic of Congo, where he served as financial director. Mr. Sylla holds a master’s degree in economics and international management from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in Montreal, Canada, and a bache-lor’s degree in economics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Belgium.