Success story / Harvard University: The “Dream Team” sénégalaise

For many young students as managers, Harvard is the best in the world, in vocational training. Indeed, the famous Cambridge University is both the first, oldest, richest and especially the most prestigious in the United States and the world. A renowned faculty, students from anywhere and with over one hundred nationalities. Among them, currently, a legion of six compatriots Sénégalais good complexion, who managed to access this Pantheon of Knowledge, this high place of production of the elite who direct the affairs of the world. They are residents of the Harvard Business School, Management School and the Kennedy School of Government, School of Political Science, which trains senior U.S. administration and global, the equivalent of the ENA in France.

They are two young lady, bright and volunteers Naye Bathily and Lena Sene, who have the leadership in the blood for dads “very political”. It is not the daughter of Abdoulaye Bathily (LD) or Ibrahima Sene (PIT) without feeling in his bowels, the fiber conqueror. They are parties to the conquest of America and the Business Know to forge a destiny, not local, but international. They are children of globalization as their four companions men, namely Momar Dieng, Souleymane Martial Ba, or Nakoulima Fodé Ousseynou Ndiaye. The last two, for reasons related to a duty of confidentiality, did not wish to participate in this exercise.

For the next academic Abdou Ly, a compatriot, adolescent of 18, will join the very select Harvard College recruiting at the international desk, from the tray. He was resident at the International School of Dakar, which recently celebrated its 25 years presence in Senegal. An institution comprising more than 350 students of which a third is a U.S. citizen alongside 44 other nationalities. The candidature of young Ly was accepted by five major U.S. universities. Naturally, he chose Harvard …

Before them, other valiant compatriots have followed a course at Harvard. The first of which, in the early 70s, is the dean Papa Alioune Ndao, and most recently, Papa Ndiaye Madiaw (founder of the investment fund AFIG) or Ramatoulaye Diallo (MBA from Harvard Business School, former associate AFIG, sister Mamadou Lamine Diallo) …

Naye A. BATHILY “Giving what I got …”

Naye Bathily began his career with large international organizations. At World Bank headquarters in Washington, she is a consultant to the Division of Communication where she launches including the “Project of the Month” and is working to publish the book “Our Dream is a World Free of Poverty”.

Since 2001, Naye is in charge of relations with parliamentarians the world over the office of External Relations in Paris. It is the first rookie to full-time to this position, and participates actively in the creation, in this institution, the First Global Parliamentary Network on the World Bank. A unique platform for dialogue of members of parliaments of all countries on major issues related to development issues.

Over the past seven years, she initiated and orchestrated a number of discussion workshops and conferences involving hundreds of elected representatives of the world, around specific themes emerging countries. “Governance”, “Natural Resource Management”, “AIDS and HIV are some topics that are developed. It is also and especially in Africa for a better mobilization and cooperation of the parliamentarians on the continent.

Its action takes place on time in the field of operations financed by the Bank, it initiated during this period, some twenty high-level visits of parliamentarians from all countries including members of U.S. Congress and the European Parliament in the recipient countries development assistance. Naye, in this context, coordinated and participated in international meetings of parliamentarians with a dozen heads of state and many leaders of the Private Sector and Civil Society in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

In 2004, she committed and becomes a pillar of the network of African professionals in the Diaspora “Space Jappo” which promotes the event and the promotion of cadres from Senegal. It remains today a member of the board. Currently Master of Public Administration and International Development at Harvard University, she joined the prestigious Program of the Mason Edward Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. This program has trained many political leaders and international diplomacy. As became the first woman president in Africa, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico and the current United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon.

In September 2008, Naye takes a further step toward possible public functions it is allowed to participate in the highly coveted training program policy from the Kennedy School at Harvard “From Harvard Square to the Oval Office, which promotes a better representation of women in the public service. Previously, she had obtained in 1998, with honorable mention, a double degree in International Relations and Commerce at the University of Maryland. She has subsequently completed the course in 2005 LEAD International (Leadership for Environment and Development, London),

Long Naye has always wanted to serve his continent: “I am a privileged having received a good education, an experience of over ten years in international development, and the same, to understand what a country needs to grow. ” She added with conviction: “I want to contribute to a significant change in Senegal and in Africa more widely. It is high time to give a little or a lot of what I received. ”

LENA SENE former intern at the White House

As for Lena Sene, it is MBA student at Harvard Business School. Just before Harvard, she was selected, with 13 other Americans at the national level at the White House Fellowship, a leadership program that exists in the United States for 44 years. The program was created by President Lyndon Johnson as “non-partisan” and all the presidents who followed, have strictly maintained the tradition since 1964. This means that each year, the finalists selected are Democrats, Republicans and independent of any political party in power in the White House. Among those the White House Fellows trained, include Colin L. Powell, former Secretary of State of USA, Marshall Carter, former Chairman and CEO of State Street Bank & Trust, and Elaine Chao, former Minister of Labor of the USA.

Prior to his appointment as White House Fellow, Lena was Représentante Investment in Private Investment Management Division Lehman Brothers Banquière and JP Morgan Private Bank, where she co-founded the Global Private Banking Analyst Forum, an initiative which resulted in a worldwide exchange of best practices in the Private Bank. In his role as Coordinator of the Global Forum, Léna oversaw the representatives of Chile, China, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States. She was chosen as the only “JPMorgan Chase Rising Star” during the annual conference of the Women’s Bond Club in 2003.

Lena is one of the founders of Network 20/20, an NGO for youth leaders to engage in the debate on foreign policy issues in the United States and abroad. She led the first international delegation of Network 20/20 in Turkey where the delegation met with senior business leaders, leaders of NGOs and religious organizations as well as Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his top advisers and Ministers. In 2005, she led a delegation of 14 members of 20/20 ’s in Poland.

During the presidential elections of 2008, Lena joined the New England Steering Committee for Obama, the Committee of the Obama team in charge of the New England region. She has volunteered during his campaign in the states of Massachusetts and Virginia.

Finally, Lena was born in the United States and grew up between Senegal, Russia and Ukraine where her mother hails. Thus, she is fluent in English, french, Russian and Wolof. Lena was a member of the Board of the United Nations Association of New York and a member of the Economic Club of New York. She holds NASD licenses 7 and 63. She graduated from Bates College with a Bachelor’s degree in economics.

Momar Dieng Mathematics for International Development

Candidate for Master of Public Administration and International Development, also at the Kennedy School of Harvard University, Momar Dieng has specialized in strategic planning and economic policy for developing countries. It is also the editor of the Journal of African Politics at Harvard.

Before joining Harvard, Momar was Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Arizona. In this sense, it provides a bridge (bridge) between the world of research and international development. He received his PhD in Mathematics in 2005 at the University of California-Davis, where his thesis focused on a complex subject, “Random matrices and integrable systems. While pursuing a promising career in teaching and research, Momar has supported several efforts to integrate ICT in support of a series of educational projects, including the development of scientific software for the blind.

With a natural propensity for leadership, Momar has also served as a mentor at the prestigious McNair Scholars Program and chaired the Association of Black students at the University of California. He was awarded the Alice Leung of excellence in research at the University of California and the Chancellor’s Award from the University of California for the Community and Diversity in recognition of innovative leadership within the university community.

Regardless of academic achievement and research in mathematics, our compatriot has also been very active in the fields of technology and capacity building in our country. In 2007, under the aegis of his consultancy firm ICT Africa Web Services, he designed, built and managed a monitoring platform for the Presidential elections in Senegal, in partnership with local NGOs and civil society. It was also a finalist in the 2008 edition of the Lighting Africa Development Marketplace Competition, organized by the World Bank have designed and piloted a project for rural solar lighting Dassilamé Serer (Senegal). Other notable projects include the creation of a web platform for the translation of scientific and technical vocabulary in languages that supports, among other things, developing a web platform multilingual accounting for SMEs.

MARTIAL SOULEYMANE BA Passion of finance

Martial Souleymane Ba was second year student at Harvard Business School. Listed on the honor roll of the school, there is the African continent with dignity. Although not yet thirty, Souleymane has worked in financial transactions which the stakes are at the level of Gross National Product (GNP) of Senegal.

Before Harvard, he was an employee of the Carlyle Group, one of the largest venture capital (private equity) in the world with a capital of 92 billion dollars. At Carlyle, Souleymane managed investments in transport and automotive industries. He played a key role in the acquisition of Hertz. The acquisition of the largest car rental company in the world, made for an amount of 15 billion won the Deal of the Year in 2005 for its complexity.

Prior to joining Carlyle Group, the young financier has worked for Morgan Stanley, an investment bank based in New York, specializing in restructuring, mergers and acquisitions and IPOs. It was particularly active in negotiating the sale of part of Alcan of an amount of 4.5 billion dollars.

Before Morgan Stanley, Souleymane received his bachelor’s degree in economics at Wesleyan University where he was awarded Phi Beta Kappa, a title awarded to the best students of the promotion. At Wesleyan, he received numerous awards, including the White Prize for Excellence in Economic Sciences, the Heideman Award for his contribution in the Wesleyan community and the prestigious Gilbert Clee Scholarship award to both academic excellence and great potential for leadership. Souleymane has also been elected President of the Association of Wesleyan students.

Although in recent years lived in the United States, Senegal is the first passion of Souleymane and it expects to return. “When we had the opportunity to acquire skills that can be highlighted in his country, it is imperative to return.” One of his projects is to help young Senegalese wishing to study in American universities to receive scholarships.

Souleymane is also fond of cooking sénégalaise he likes to introduce his comrades.