Papa Amadou SARR
Overview
In September 2022, Papa Amadou Sarr takes over as head of the Mobilization, Partnerships and Communication Executive Department of the French Development Agency (AFD), in charge of defining, coordinating and implementing institutional and partnership relations; communication activities and mobilizing external financing and stakeholders in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
After working for the UNDP in Dakar, the OECD Development Centre in Paris from 2008 to 2013 and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Papa Amadou joined the cabinet of Senegal's Minister of the Economy, Finance and Planning in 2015, before being appointed Director General of the Ministry's Financial Sector and Competitiveness, and then Minister, Delegate General for Rapid Entrepreneurship for Women and Young People (DER) at the Presidency of the Republic of Senegal from 2017 to 2022. Papa Amadou Sarr holds a Master's degree in Public Affairs from Sciences Po Paris, a DEA in Comparative Development Studies from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, a Master's degree in Development Studies from the Sorbonne in Paris and a Certificate in Public Financial Management from the JFK School of Government at Harvard University.
- Oil and gas: One of the five major challenges for Senegal's post-Macky Sal economic future in Jeune Afrique (2024)
- Senegal aims to boost hydrocarbon development in Alternatives économiques (2024)
- The role of WB-IMF meetings and the partnership with Morocco: an update from Papa Amadou Sarr, Executive Director of AFD in 360 (2023)
- Ivorian youth: AFD aims to help create 3 million jobs in 4 years in Abidjan 24 (2023)
- IVth Emerging Valley / Papa Amadou Sarr, Executive Director of AFD: ”Some of the prizewinners in Marseille have become real stars in Africa in Africapresse Paris (2022)
- Partnership between our two continents must involve entrepreneurship“, conversation with Papa Amadou Sarr in Le Grand Continent (2022)
- Papa Amadou Sarr, Senegalese minister, heads the Délégation générale à l'entreprenariat rapide (General Delegation for Rapid Entrepreneurship) on RFI (2022)