First Name: Ibrahima

Last name: SECK

Marital status: Married, 2 children

Professional body: Foreign Affairs Counsellor

1. EDUCATION

• 2013 : Diploma from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA, Dakar), Diplomacy Section
• 2012: Military training, with a certificate of completion of initial training for combatants (FIC), at the National School for Active Officers (ENOA) in Thiès (Senegal)
• 2011 : Master II in Planning, Decentralisation and Territorial Development, Ecole supérieure d’Economie Appliquée (ESEA), Dakar
• 2010: Master II in Political Science, option: International Governance, Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (UCAD)
• 2008: Master’s degree in Private Law, option: Business Law
• 2003: Postgraduate training in Education Sciences, UNESCO Chair in Education Sciences (CUSE)
• 1999 : Certificate of Aptitude for Secondary Education (CAES), Ex Ecole Normale Supérieure, UCAD
• 1997: Master’s degree in Geography, with Honors, UCAD
• 1995 : Certificate of Aptitude for Medium Education (CAEM), Ex Ecole Normale Supérieure
• 1993 : Licence in Geography, UCAD
• 1992: Diploma of General University Studies (DEUG) in Geography, with honors
• 1989: High school diploma

2. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

• Since 11 October 2022, First Counsellor at the Embassy of Senegal in Malaysia
• From March 2020– September 2022: Director, by interim, of Partnerships and Economic and Cultural Promotion (DPPEC), Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Senegalese Abroad
• From 13 January to 18 March 2021: Head of Division at the Directorate of Partnerships and Economic and Cultural Promotion (DDPEC), Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Senegalese Abroad
• From September 2015 to July 2020: First Counsellor (Deputy to the Ambassador), at the Embassy of Senegal in Abidjan
• From April 2014 to September 2015: Head of Transregional Division at the Directorate of International Organisations and Globalisation (DOIM) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Senegalese Abroad
• From 2011 to 2013, training at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA, Dakar), Diplomacy Section
• From October 1995 to April 2011: Certified secondary school teacher of History and Geography

3. LANGUAGES AND OTHERS

• National languages: Serere, Wolof
• French: read (excellent), written (excellent), spoken (excellent)
• English: read (fairly well), written (fairly well), spoken (not well)
• Computer skills: Word, Powerpoint, Excel

4. DECORATION

• 2024, Officer of the National Order of Merit of Senegal
• 2016: Knight of the National Order of Merit of Senegal