Amadou Mahtar Ba is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of AllAfrica Global Media Inc, - owner and operator of

AllAfrica.com AllAfrica is a website that aggregates news produced primarily on the African continent about all areas of African life, politics, issues and culture. It is available in both English and French and produced by AllAfrica Global Media, which has of ...

- an international multi-media content service provider, systems technology developer and the largest distributor of African news and information worldwide. From 2009 until May 2014, he was Chief Executive of the African Media Initiative, a pan-African effort he established to provide the continent's media owners and practitioners with tools they need to play a stronger leadership role in their communities, countries and the region.

Career

Prior to starting AllAfrica, Ba served from 1996 to 2000 as Director of Communications and Marketing for BICIS Bank, a subsidiary of the French banking group

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. From 1993 to 1996, Ba helped lead the successful restructuring and privatization of the

Panafrican News Agency PanaPress or Pana or PanAfrican News Agency is an African news agency. It has its headquarters in Dakar, Senegal. It was founded on 20 July 1979 in Addis Ababa by the OAU and was relaunched by UNESCO in 1993. It provides news in English, French, ...

(PANA). Amadou Mahtar Ba sits on several boards and participates in a number of international working groups including the UN Secretary General's High-Level Panel on Women's Economic Empowerment, the World Economic Forum Network of Global Agenda Councils, the Africa Democratic Institute, the Africa Policy Advisory Board of ONE and serves as a member of the Panel of Judges for the annual CNN African Journalist Award. Ba was educated in Senegal, France and Spain, and is fluent in French, English, Spanish,

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and

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. He holds a master's degree from the Ecole Française des Professionnels de la Communication in Paris and Paris 7 University (Jussieu).

Recognition

Ba is the recipient of many distinguished awards and recognitions in Africa, the United States and Europe. Since the inception of its list, ''

New African ''New African'' is an English-language monthly news magazine based in London. Published since 1966, it is read by many people across the African continent and the African diaspora. It claims to be the oldest pan-African monthly in English, as well ...

'' magazine selected Ba as one of the "100 Most Influential Africans" of 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Forbes ''Forbes'' () is an American business magazine owned by Integrated Whale Media Investments and the Forbes family. Published eight times a year, it features articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. ''Forbes'' also re ...

listed him as one of "The Top 10 Most Powerful Men in Africa" in February 2014. The Millennium Africa Foundation presented him in 2014 with its Lifetime Achievement Award alongside laureates

Goodluck Jonathan Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan (born 20 November 1957)Lawson Heyford, ''The Source'' (Lagos), 11 December 2006. is a Nigerian politician who served as the President of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015. He lost the 2015 presidential election to fo ...

, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and Dr. Donald Kaberuka, President of the

African Development Bank The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) or (BAD) is a multilateral development finance institution headquartered in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, since September 2014. The AfDB is a financial provider to African governments and private companies i ...

. Ba is also included as one of the top 500 Africans contributing to the rise of the continent by '' Africa24'' magazine.

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and Afronline awarded Ba the 2012 African Media Prize for his "outstanding contribution to African Media and his skills on promoting innovation among African Media."

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