[1] A member of the Alliance for the Republic (APR), he served as Foreign Minister of Senegal from 4 April to 29 October 2012.
Born in Saint-Louis on 7 February 1958, Cissé passed his primary studies in his native city.
He studied foreign language application in English and Spanish at Cheikh Anta Diop University and graduated in 1980.
He then studied at Jean Monnet University and the Institut d'études politiques de Toulouse.
That year, he was awarded the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program to study at the University of Minnesota.