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Papa Demba SECK
Managing Director
Financial economist, project management specialist (evaluation of policies and programmes, microfinance, industrial development). International expert-consultant since 1997 (AfDB, UNDP, UNESCO, IFAD, World Bank). Education: Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris 5 René Descartes, CERDI.
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Issa Diop N'DOYE
Associate Director
Over 30 years of experience in engineering and project development, training, capacity building and local content. Advisor to Oil & Gas companies and coordinator of the Senegalese oil & gas professionals network (GPSOG).
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Bernard GROS
Doctor-engineer, process engineering
Polytechnic engineer, former Associate Professor at Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III. Led 51 international academic cooperation missions in educational engineering, in close partnership with industry.
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Saïd AKRETCHE
Energy expert, former CEO of Naftal (Sonatrach)
Former Director General of Energy at the Algerian ministry, then CEO of Naftal (petroleum products distribution) for over 8 years. Downstream expert: hydrocarbon management and storage, strategy and local content.
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Mamadou DIOP
Structured finance expert
Former Deputy Director General for Sub-Saharan Africa at ITFC / IsDB Group, having financed major oil operations. Contributed to drafting Senegal’s oil and gas codes (2019). Graduate of ESCP Paris and DESS International Finance (Paris-Dauphine).
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Souleye WADE
Doctor-engineer geologist
Doctor in metallogeny, lecturer-researcher at the Institute of Earth Sciences (UCAD, Dakar). Over 30 years of experience in mineral exploration, training and research (BRGM, COGEMA).
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Malick CISSOKHO
Senior reservoir engineer
International expert in upstream Oil & Gas and founder of Ogarex Energies. Nearly 15 years at TotalEnergies (reservoir engineering, offshore fields). Executive MBA from INSEAD.