Ibrahima Aidara

Ibrahima Aidara is the deputy Africa director at NRGI, supporting the strategic leadership and management of NRGI’s work across sub-Saharan Africa. Based in Dakar, he provides program oversight in focus countries, guiding efforts with governments, civil society and communities to improve natural resource governance, promote equity and accountability, and respond to the challenges and opportunities of the energy transition and the phase-out of fossil fuels. Before joining NRGI, he served as executive director of the West Africa Centre for Public Policies and director of the Public Policy Research Unit at LASPAD, Gaston Berger University. He previously held senior leadership roles with Open Society–Africa and the Open Society Initiative for West Africa, and earlier held technical and leadership positions with UNDP, Oxfam, Consumers International and Senegal’s Ministry of Economics and Planning. Ibrahima holds advanced degrees in macroeconomics, economic policy and development studies and a Ph.D. in economics.