Zéphirin Diabré (born 26 August 1959) is a Burkinabé politician. He served in the Government of Burkina Faso as Minister of Finance from 1994 to 1996.

Biography

Diabré is an economist by training and holds a doctorate in management sciences from the Faculty of Economics and Management (

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) of Bordeaux, France. He joined the University of Ouagadougou in 1987 as assistant professor of management before joining the private sector between 1989 and 1992 as deputy director of Brakina. He was elected MP in

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under the banner of the

Organization for Popular Democracy – Labour Movement Organization for Popular Democracy – Labour Movement (french: Organisation pour la Démocratie Populaire - Mouvement du Travail) was the ruling political party in Burkina Faso. It was founded in April 1989 by the Union of Burkinabè Communists, t ...

(ODP–MT), but gave up his seat to his deputy to become Minister of Trade, Industry and Mines the same year. He remained in post until becoming Ministers of the Economics and Finance in 1994. Between 19967 and 1997 he served as President of the Economic and Social Council. He later left the Congress for Democracy and Progress (created as a result of the merger of the ODP–MT and other parties) following policy disagreement. He became a researcher at the American Harvard University, then Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and then Africa and Middle East director of the AREVA group. On 1 March 2010, he was one of the founding members the

Union for Progress and Reform The Union for Progress and Reform (, UPC) is a political party in Burkina Faso. The party describes itself as non-ideological. History The UPC was established by Zéphirin Diabré in 2010 after he left the ruling Congress for Democracy and Prog ...

(UPC), an opposition political party that advocates democratic change and "real change" in Burkina Faso. He was the UPC candidate in the November 2015 presidential election, placing second behind Roch Marc Christian Kaboré. On July 25, 2020, Zéphirin Diabré, was invested in Ouagadougou by his party, the Union for Progress and Change (UPC), presidential candidate in November 2020.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Diabre, Zephirin Living people 1959 births Ministers of Finance of Burkina Faso Economy ministers of Burkina Faso Trade ministers of Burkina Faso Industry ministers of Burkina Faso Union for Progress and Reform politicians People from Ouagadougou Harvard Institute for International Development 21st-century Burkinabé people