[1][2] Marie-France Malangu Kabedi Mbuyi was born in the town of Kananga, Kasaï-Occidental Province, in the Belgian Congo.
Her first job was at the Centre for Applied Economics at the Free University of Brussels, where she worked for a year as an economist.
She was then hired by the BCC (at that time Bank of Zaire), where she worked in their research department for two years.
Her area of responsibility included Togo, Benin, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Mali.
From 2015 until 2018 she served as the Director and Head of Mission at IMF's Regional Technical Assistance Centre for West Africa (AFRITAC-West).