H.E. Yassine Fall
Minister of African Integration and Foreign Affairs, Republic of SenegalYassine Fall is Senegal Minister of African Integration and Foreign Affairs. She is an economist with over 30
years of experience in public policy, multilateral governance and management in Africa and around the world. She was educated in Senegal, France, and the United States.
She completed fifteen years in the United Nations system in New York finishing her tenure as Director of Economic Division. As Director of UN INSTRAW she restored and transformed the agency. She served as Senior Economic Advisor at the UN Millennium and made a significant contribution to the 2005 UN sponsored book, “The End of Poverty”.
Prior to joining the UN, she worked for 13 years in international consulting focusing on a range of issues including macroeconomic policy, poverty eradication, environmental management, land tenure, and emergency humanitarian operations.
Through her knowledge of the rural world, she led missions on rural forestry programs, agricultural, pastoral
and land tenure issues. She developed socio-economic initiatives for the most marginalized communities in
Eastern Senegal and the River Valley, in Casamance and for fishermen of the coast of Senegal. She carried out programatic work in remote localities in Guinea Bissau; in conflict zones among the Touareg communities refugees in Mauritania, during post-genocide in Rwanda, in refugees and humanitarian assistance settings in Somalia, Burundi, Kenya and Tanzania and in South Africa, Malawi, Côte d’Ivoire, DRC and Senegalese to address domestic workers' rights.
Yassine Fall led for 4 years and uplifted AWORD, one of the oldest non-Governmental organizations in Africa that that strongly positioned women in African academia and research.
She launched AWOMI in 2006 and for the following 10 years organized the Young Women Knowledge and Leadership Institute (YOWLI). YOWLI brought together hundreds of young women and men from Africa and its Diaspora and strengthened their economic knowledge, their multilateral development analysis and leadership abilities. YOWLI helped produce many young African leaders presently working in international development, at the local level, in state
institutions and in the private sector.
After retiring from the UN, Yassine Fall supported private sector innovation initiatives while launching a social justice movement. She has been active promoting social justice and democratic transition in Senegal and West Africa. She run as Presidential Candidate in 2019 and later joined the party Pastef les Patriotes becoming Vice President of the Party in charge of International Relations.
She is fluent in Wolof, her own language, French, English, Spanish and has conversational Portuguese level.