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Geological Engineer by Design, Dr Rokhaya Samba DIENE holds a Doctor-Engineering Diploma in Applied Geology from Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. Specialized in Public Administration of Mines from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines in Paris and holder of an Executive MBA in Finance and Advanced Management from the Polytechnic University of West Africa in Dakar, she successfully completed in 2011, the Minerals Regulation and Management course from Curtin University in Australia, and in 2012, the course on “Mining Policy and Trade Negotiations” from IDEP.
Appointed Director of Mining Prospecting and Promotion in 2015, she was successively Head of the Documentation Center and Mining Cadastre, Head of the Mines and Quarries Division, Head of the Regional Service of Mines and Geology of Dakar.
Dr Diène coordinated the Africa-Europe Georesources Observation Project (AEGOS), the Institutional Diagnosis Program of the Ministry of Mines and Diagnosis of the Legal and Fiscal Framework of the Mining Sector and the organization of the 5 editions of the International Mining Fair of SENEGAL.