Mali
Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the List of African countries by area, eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over . The country is bordered to the north by Algeria, to the east b ...
government of Mali
Until the military coup of March 22, 2012 and a second military coup in December 2012 the politics of Mali took place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Mali is head of state with ...
France
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, earning degrees in economics and finance. He was a professor at Mali's National School of Administration (''École nationale d'administration'') and the University of Mali from 1980 to 2000, and he also held high positions in the state administration; he was Director-General of Financial Control from 1978 to 1987, Director-General of the Budget from 1987 to 1991, and Technical Adviser to the Ministry of the Economy and Finance from 1991 to 1994.CV at Malian government website . Later, he worked as a consultant on finance and the economy for international organizations, including the
World Bank
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, from 1995 to 2000, and he worked in a regional role as Public Finance Commissioner of the
West African Economic and Monetary Union
The West African Economic and Monetary Union, generally referred in English to by its French acronym UEMOA (for Union Économique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine) and alternatively as WAEMU, is a treaty-based arrangement binding together eight West ...
(UEMOA) from 2001 to 2005. He became Technical Adviser to the UEMOA Commission, in charge of public finance and fiscal policy, in 2005. Toure passed away in 2015
Back in Mali, Touré was appointed Director of the Cabinet of Prime Minister
Modibo Sidibé
Modibo Sidibé (born 7 November 1952) is a Malian politician who was Prime Minister of Mali from September 2007 to April 2011.Django Sissoko as Director of the Cabinet of the Prime Minister on 4 February 2008. He was then moved into the Malian government as Minister of the Economy and Finance on 9 April 2009."Le nouveau gouvernement" ''L'Essor'', 10 April 2009 .