Mandé Sidibé

Mandé Sidibé (born January 20, 1940 in Bafoulabé , † August 25, 2009 in Paris ) was an economist and politician in Mali . He was Prime Minister of the country from 2000 to 2002 and Chairman of the Board of Ecobank from 2006 to 2009 .

Life

Sidibé was born in Bafoulabé in southwest Mali and grew up in Bamako . In 1959 he left Mali and studied in Bordeaux and Paris economics . After graduating from the University of Paris in 1965, he left France and returned to Mali.

Mandé Sidibé is the brother of Modibo Sidibé , who also went into Malian politics and was also Prime Minister of Mali between 2007 and 2011.

Career

After completing his studies, Sidibé began working for the Malian state bank, Bank of the Republic of Mali (BRM). In 1969 he moved to the Africa Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where he subsequently rose to head of the Africa Department.

Sidibé left the IMF in 1985 and switched to the West African Central Bank (UEMOA). After he was head of the Mali department at UEMOA between 1992 and 1995, he became an advisor to the then Malian President Alpha Oumar Konaré in 1996 . It was also Konaré who named Sidibé Prime Minister of Mali in 2000 after Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta resigned as the same. He held this office until the presidential elections in 2002, in which Sidibé ran for the office of president but was unsuccessful to Amadou Toumani Touré .

After retiring from politics, Mandé Sidibé worked from 2003 for Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), an African bank that is active in more than 25 African countries. From 2006 until his death on August 25, 2009, he was CEO of Ecobank.

Sidibé died of complications from an illness at the age of 69.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Konrad Adenauer Foundation: Government reshuffle in Mali , Anke Christine Lerch, Ute Gierczynski-Bocandé, written on March 15, 2000; Retrieved January 16, 2013