Zéphirin Diabré

Zéphirin Diabré
Zéphirin Diabré
President of the Economic and Social Council
	In office; 1996–1997
Minister of Economics and Finance
	In office; 1994–1996
Preceded by	Ousmane Ouédraogo
Succeeded by	Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo
Minister of Trade, Industry and Mines
	In office; 1992–1994
Personal details
Born	26 August 1959; Ouagadougou, Upper Volta
Political party	ODP–MT, UPC

Zéphirin Diabré (born 26 August 1959) is a Burkinabé politician. He served in the Government of Burkina Faso as Minister of Finance from 1994 to 1996.[1]

Biography

Diabré is an economist by training and holds a doctorate in management sciences from the Faculty of Economics and Management (BEM Management School) of Bordeaux, France. He joined the University of Ouagadougou in 1987 as assistant professor of management before joining the private sector between 1989 and 1992 as deputy director of Brakina.

He was elected MP in 1992 under the banner of the Organization for Popular Democracy – Labour Movement (ODP–MT), but gave up his seat to his deputy to become Minister of Trade, Industry and Mines the same year. He remained in post until becoming Ministers of the Economics and Finance in 1994. Between 19967 and 1997 he served as President of the Economic and Social Council.

He later left the Congress for Democracy and Progress (created as a result of the merger of the ODP–MT and other parties) following policy disagreement. He became a researcher at the American Harvard University, then deputy general manager of United Nations Development Programme and then Africa and Middle East director of the AREVA group.

On 1 March 2010, he was one of the founding members the Union for Progress and Reform (UPC), an opposition political party that advocates democratic change and "real change" in Burkina Faso. He was the UPC candidate in the November 2015 presidential election, placing second behind Roch Marc Christian Kaboré.

On July 25, 2020, Zéphirin Diabré, was invested in Ouagadougou by his party, the Union for Progress and Change (UPC), presidential candidate in November 2020.

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References

"Ministre". Ministère des finances.

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[1] "Ministre". Ministère des finances.