Mandé Sidibé (20 January 1940[1] – 25 August 2009) was Prime Minister of Mali from 2000 to 2002 and chairman of the Board of Directors of Ecobank from 2006 to 2009.
Then, in 1967, he was offered and opportunity at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as an Economist in the Africa Department.
While at the IMF, he attended the George Washington University, from which he graduated with a Masters in Business Administration in 1974.
In 1996, Mandé Sidibé became special advisor to Malian President Alpha Oumar Konaré.
[3] Sidibé served on the Board of Directors of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), a private sector banking group based in 13 countries of West Africa and Central Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo), from 2003 to 2006.