Aminata Mbengue Ndiaye

[1] She also serves as mayor of Louga, and is currently chair of the women's movement of the Socialist Party of Senegal.

Previously, Ndiaye served as Minister of Women, Children and the Family, as well as Minister of Social Development and National Solidarity under the presidency of Abdou Diouf.

[2] Born to El Hadj Ali Mbengue, a civil servant, in Louga, Senegal.

Attended Lycée Ahmed Fall in Saint-Louis and later Lycée Kennedy before École normale d'enseignement technique and École national d’économie appliqué (ENEA).

Member of the Senegalese national basketball team at the Second All African Games in Lagos, Nigeria in 1973.