Aichatou Agne Pouye

Aichatou Agne Pouye has over 30 years’ experience in the private sector, public administration and international organisations. She was Director of the Division of Business and International Support and the Division of Market Development of the International Trade Center, a UN and WTO agency, from 2006 until 2017.

Prior to this Aichatou was General Manager of the Senegalese Millenium Challenge Account in 2005, Minister of Trade in Senegal from 2003 to 2004 and Minister of SMEs and Trade from 2001 to 2003. She was also the General Administrator of the Economic Promotion Fund (FPE), a refinancing fund established by the African Development Bank and the Senegalese Government to fund SMEs and micro projects from 2000 to 2001. From 1990 to 2000 she was Citibank’s Head of Financial Control Department and then Head of Cash Management and International Trade Development. She started her career at Ernst and Young International, Dakar, Senegal in 1984 where she worked as an External auditor.

Aichatou has an MBA from the IEN in Caen, France and a BSc and MSc in Economics from the Université de Paris 9 Dauphine in France.