Bio

Mr Ndiaye is a Director with the African Fund. Prior to this, Mr Ndiaye had senior responsibilities for IFC's equity and debt investment activities in capital markets in West and Central Africa between 1996 and 2000. Immediately, before joining the IFC, Mr Ndiaye returned to his home country of Senegal where he worked pro-bono as a special advisor to the Ministers of Commerce and Foreign Affairs. Mr. Ndiaye spent most of his career on Wall Street at Salomon Brothers in Corporate Finance and joined JP Morgan's Emerging Markets Group in 1992, focusing on Latin America. In 1994, he launched the firm's trading activities in African and Middle Eastern securities. Mr Ndiaye currently serves as Special Advisor for Economic and Financial Affairs to the President of the Republic of Senegal and as Chairman of the Senegalese Presidential Economic & Financial Advisory Council. Mr Ndiaye earned a joint MBA from the Wharton School of Business and MA in International Affairs from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.