Ecobank co-opts new director

The parent company of  Ecobank Group, Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), has announced the co-option to its board of directors  Mrs. Aichatou Agne Pouye.

According to a statement issued by the lender, Mrs. Pouye is a Senegalese with over 30 years experience in the private sector, public administration and international organisations.

Mrs. Pouye started her career at Ernst and Young International, Dakar, Senegal, in 1984, where she worked as an auditor. In October, 1990, she joined Citibank where she spent 10 years as resident vice president, group vice president and member of the bank’s management committee.

In July, 2000, she went into public sector as General Administrator of the Economic Promotion Fund (FPE), a refinancing fund established by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Senegalese Government to fund SMEs and micro projects.

From May, 2001, to April, 2004, she joined the Government of Senegal as Minister of SMEs and Trade, and thereafter Minister of Trade; both mandates covering a cumulated period of five years. In August, 2006, she gave an international flavour to her career by taking the position of Director of the Division of Business and International Support and the Division of Marketing of the International Trade Centre (ITC), a UN and WTO agency, where she worked until December, 2017.

Mrs. Pouye holds a Specialised Postgraduate Degree in Management and Business Administration of the Institut d’ Administration des Enterprises (IAE) of Caen, France, a BSC and an MSC in Economics, both from the Université de Paris 9 Dauphine, France.