Dr. Odile Faye is Program Officer Gender and Civil Society at ECOWAS Commission since April 2016. She works particularly on the designing and implementation of gender programmes and for the mainstreaming and operationalization of ECOWAS Gender policies in the ECOWAS 15 Member States. Having spent 17 years at the Gaston Berger University (UGB) in Dakar, she headed from 2007 to 2016, the Executive Secretariat of the Association of African Women for Research and Development (AAWORD) bringing together 22 African countries in Africa and the Diaspora. She has been a member of many international and continental networks such as LDC Watch, the African Women Caucus on Gender Equality, the African Women Lobby on Gender Equality, African Women CSW Group, the CSO group working with the World Bank and the African Development Bank.
She is also very committed to women movements in Senegal and development at the grassroot level.
Dr. Faye holds a PhD in Sociology from GBU, Senegal, a Postgraduate Degree in Information and Communication Sciences from Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal and a Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resources Management in International Organizations from CESAG, Dakar, Senegal.