Mandé Sidibé (20 January 1940
["Présidentielles: 24 sur la ligne de départ"]
''L'Essor'', April 8, 2002 . – 25 August 2009) was
Prime Minister of Mali
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from 2000 to 2002 and chairman of the Board of Directors of
Ecobank from 2006 to 2009. He was also Director of the Malian branch of the
Central Bank of West African States
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(''Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest'', BCEAO) from 1992 to 1995.
Biography
Personal life
Sidibé was born in
Bafoulabé, Mali,
[ and raised in ]Bamako
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Bamak ...
. He was the son of Mamadou Sidibé, a captain in the French Army. He attended the Terrasson de Fougères High School in Bamako
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, before leaving for France in 1959, where he obtained his Baccalauréat in 1960 at the Académie de Bordeaux. He also graduated with a degree in Economic Sciences
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('' licence ès sciences économiques'') in 1965 from the University of Paris
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.
Sidibé is the brother of the Modibo Sidibé
Modibo Sidibé (born 7 November 1952) is a Malian politician who was Prime Minister of Mali from September 2007 to April 2011.[International Monetary Fund
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(IMF) as an Economist in the Africa
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Department. He held several positions at the IMF, including a resident advisor role in Chad
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from 1975 to 1977. He went on to become the divisional head, Africa Department. While at the IMF, he attended the George Washington University
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, from which he graduated with a Masters in Business Administration
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in 1974.
In 1985, Mandé Sidibé left the IMF to join the BCEAO in various capacities, including Secretary General in charge of monetary policies and special advisor to the governor of BCEAO. From 1992 to 1995, he was the Director of BCEAO-Mali, while still retaining his role as a special advisor to the governor. In 1996, Mandé Sidibé became special advisor to Malian President Alpha Oumar Konaré
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.[
From 2000 to 2002 Mandé Sidibé served as Prime Minister of Mali. He was a candidate in the April 2002 presidential election,][ winning 2.01% of the vote and placing ninth."1er tour de l'élection présidentielle au Mali : Verdict de la Cour Constitutionnelle"]
''L'Essor'', May 9, 2002 .
Sidibé served on the Board of Directors of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), a private sector banking group based in 13 countries of West Africa
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and Central Africa
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(Benin
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, Burkina Faso
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, Cameroon
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, Cape Verde
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, Côte d'Ivoire
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, Ghana
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, Guinea
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, Liberia
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, Mali
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, Niger
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, Nigeria
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, Senegal
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and Togo
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), from 2003 to 2006. In 2006, he was appointed as Chairman of the Ecobank Board of Directors.[
Mandé Sidibé died on August 25, 2009, in ]Paris
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at the age of 69 after a brief illness.[
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1940 births
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Malian economists
George Washington University School of Business alumni
University of Paris alumni
People from Bamako
People from Kayes Region
Prime ministers of Mali
Malian expatriates in the United States
Malian expatriates in France