Yassine Fall

Yassine Fall (sometimes spelled Yacine Fall) is a Senegalese economist and politician who has been the country's Minister of Foreign Affairs since April 2024. She worked for fifteen years in various economic and leadership roles for the United Nations and has advised various African governments and organisations on economic policy.

== Early life and education ==

Yassine Fall was born in Ndiangue in Richard Toll in the Waalo and grew up in Pikine. Her father was an imam and her mother was a farmer who practiced traditional basketry. Fall attended John F. Kennedy High School in Dakar and the Ecole Normale des Filles in Thiès.

Fall began studying Spanish at the University of Dakar before moving to the University of Villetaneuse in Paris. She has a Masters in Economics from Howard University and studied for a PhD at the University of Texas, but chose not to defend her thesis in order to return to Senegal and join the UN.

== Career ==

Fall taught mathematics in Washington, D.C. before establishing an international consulting firm based in Dakar and Nairobi in 1983 called African Economists for Social Change. She worked for thirteen years on development issues including food and aid distribution...