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Kaba Nialé (born 1962) is an Ivorian politician who has been serving as Minister of Planning and Development and President of the Board of Governors of
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(AFDB) since 2019. Nialé is the first woman to head the Ministry of Economy and Finance in Côte d'Ivoire. She was listed among “Top 50, most powerful women in Africa” by the pan-African weekly '' Jeune Afrique'' in 2015.


Early life and education

Nialé was born in Bouko in 1962. She obtained a baccalaureate series C in 1981 and a master's degree in economics with public economy option from the University of Abidjan-Cocody in 1989. She earned an engineering degree from the European Center for the Training of Economic Statisticians in developing countries (CESD) and a Diploma of Advanced Studies in International Economics and Development Economics at the University of Paris 1- Panthéon-Sorbonne. In 1993, Nialé attended the Institute of the
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(IMf) in Economic Policy Management.


Career

Nialé began her career as a researcher and soon after became chief of staff to the Prime Minister from 1991 to 2000 when she was moved to the Ministry of the Economy and Finance as  Deputy Chief of Staff at the Ministry of the Economy and Finance. From 2003 to 2005, she served as the Chief of Staff to the Minister of Crafts and Supervision of the Informal Sector before her appointment as General Manager of Côte d'Ivoire Tourisme from 2005 to 2007. She was appointed Minister of Housing Promotion of Côte d'Ivoire in the government of
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, serving from 2011 to 2012. Nialé emerged the first woman to head the Ministry of Economy and Finance in Côte d'Ivoire when she was appointed on 22 November 2012 by
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Other activities

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(AfDB), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors *
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(IsDB), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors


Controversy

In 2014, the National Press Council (CNP) announced that publisher Alafe Wakili and Traore Moussa, president of the UNJCI journalists’ union, tried to bribe a colleague to halt articles by popular satirical newspaper ''L’Eléphant Déchaîné'', which accused Nialé of mismanaging government contracts.Joe Bavier and Ange Aboa (January 21, 2014)
Ivory Coast suspends publisher, press union boss in bribery case
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References

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