About

Rosine Sori-Coulibaly

Advisor

President of the Sahel and West Africa Club | Former Minister of Economy, Finance and Development (Burkina Faso)

Rosine Sori-Coulibaly is a seasoned development and experienced player with more than 35 years of professional dedication to strategic planning, sustainable development, humanitarian coordination, political dialogue, good governance, gender equality and women’s empowerment.

She has demonstrated result-oriented leadership with sustainable achievements in organizational effectiveness, efficiency and impact. She is currently the President of the Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC), a platform hosted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), to promote regional policies and provide solutions to food security and long-term economic growth.

From 2016 to 2019, Rosine served as Minister of Economy, Finance and Development for Burkina Faso and briefly as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2022. In that capacity, she led the design and implementation of innovative economic, financial, budgetary, procurement and tax policies, as well as the planning of public investments. She provided strategic oversight to the coordination of development work in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and promoted constructive dialogue with the donor community including the private sector. She was ranked top performer Minister of Finance in West and Central Africa in 2017.

She served for two (2) decades the United Nations in various senior-level positions in Burundi, Togo, Benin, Mauritania, and Guinea Bissau where she was Assistant Secretary General and Special Representative of the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. In that respect, she facilitated political transitions and national reconciliations, supported electoral processes, and led humanitarian assistance and recovery programmes.

In both Government and in the UN, Mrs Sori- Coulibaly worked closely with bilateral and multilateral organizations, notably the World Bank, the IMF, and the African Development Bank. She is a board member of several philanthropic organisations and think tanks, and active on Human and Women Rights matters. In 2022, she founded “Burkinabe Unis pour la Transformation Sociale”, a Movement that raises awareness on political and economic governance for social transformation.

Mrs Sori-Coulibaly holds a  post graduate degree (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies) in Planning and Macroeconomics  from the United Nations Institute of Development Economy , as well as a Master degree (Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures Spécialisées) in Development Economics from the University of Dakar, Senegal.