Modou Dia (born 27 March 1950) is a Senegalese politician and former diplomat. Dia represented

Senegal Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. It borders Mauritania to Mauritania–Senegal border, the north, Mali to Mali–Senegal border, the east, Guinea t ...

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia. Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about , making it the List of Asian countries ...

, the

Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

West Germany West Germany was the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. It is sometimes known as the Bonn Republi ...

and

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

. He also was the Senegalese permanent representative to the

Organisation of the Islamic Conference The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC; ; ), formerly the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, is an intergovernmental organisation founded in 1969. It consists of 57 member states, 48 of which are Muslim-majority. The Pew Forum on ...

. Dia was a candidate in the February 2007 presidential election,"L’ancien ambassadeur Modou Dia veut faire décoller le Sénégal à l’horizon 2017"
African Press Agency, February 6, 2007 . placing last out of 15 candidates with about 0.13% of the vote."Le texte intégral de la décision du Conseil constitutionnel"
Agence de Presse Sénégalaise, March 11, 2007 . Dia attended the ''

Institut catholique d'arts et métiers Located in six cities in France, Institut catholique d'arts et métiers is a Graduate Engineering school created in 1898. It is one of the ''grande école, grandes écoles'' part of Toulouse Tech. Its different curricula lead to the following Fr ...

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Lille Lille (, ; ; ; ; ) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders. Positioned along the Deûle river, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Prefectures in F ...

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1950 births Living people Senegalese politicians Ambassadors of Senegal to Saudi Arabia Ambassadors of Senegal to the Soviet Union Ambassadors of Senegal to West Germany Ambassadors of Senegal to Austria {{Senegal-politician-stub