Aida helps drive NRGI's programming in Senegal. This includes supporting the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and civil society actors, advocating for transparency and accountability in the oil and mining sectors, providing technical assistance and analysis to the emerging hydrocarbon sector, and spurring public debate on the energy transition and its impact on Senegal's extractive industry and the broader economy.
A geologist specializing in governance, gender, and quality, safety, and environmental management, Aida was the only woman in her university class. She is a founding member of Women in Mining Senegal and African Women in Mining and was selected as one of the "100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining" (WIM100) in 2020. Over the past thirteen years, she has worked on various strategic portfolios related to extractive industry management and governance and has been involved in large national and African mining public policy reforms. She has conducted projects in collaboration with institutions such as the European Union, AWIMA (Africa MaVal Project linked to critical mineral and energy transition), African Union, ECOWAS, WAEMU, OSIWA, UN WOMEN, UNDP, VLF-CECI, FAO, OSIWA, USAID, British embassy, Canadian embassy and French embassy. She is an alumna of the Francophone Africa Regional Extractive Industries Knowledge Hub and served as a researcher for the 2021 Resource Governance Index in Senegal.
Aida holds a master's degree in natural sciences and geology from Cheikh Anta Diop University and in quality, safety and environment from Polytechnic School of Dakar. She also holds degrees in minerals and energy economics from Australian National University, oil, gas and mining governance from the University of Oxford and leadership in extractive and African development from Cape Town University. She speaks French and English.
A geologist specializing in governance, gender, and quality, safety, and environmental management, Aida was the only woman in her university class. She is a founding member of Women in Mining Senegal and African Women in Mining and was selected as one of the "100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining" (WIM100) in 2020. Over the past thirteen years, she has worked on various strategic portfolios related to extractive industry management and governance and has been involved in large national and African mining public policy reforms. She has conducted projects in collaboration with institutions such as the European Union, AWIMA (Africa MaVal Project linked to critical mineral and energy transition), African Union, ECOWAS, WAEMU, OSIWA, UN WOMEN, UNDP, VLF-CECI, FAO, OSIWA, USAID, British embassy, Canadian embassy and French embassy. She is an alumna of the Francophone Africa Regional Extractive Industries Knowledge Hub and served as a researcher for the 2021 Resource Governance Index in Senegal.
Aida holds a master's degree in natural sciences and geology from Cheikh Anta Diop University and in quality, safety and environment from Polytechnic School of Dakar. She also holds degrees in minerals and energy economics from Australian National University, oil, gas and mining governance from the University of Oxford and leadership in extractive and African development from Cape Town University. She speaks French and English.