Marie Françoise Ouedraogo

She was drawn to the study of mathematics at a young age as she received good grades without putting forth much effort.

She was educated at the University of Ouagadougou, where she wrote her first thesis (Doctorat de 3ème cycle) on Lie superalgebras in 1999.

[3] She then prepared a Ph.D. thesis at Blaise Pascal University of Clermont-Ferrand in France under the co-direction of Sylvie Paycha and Akry Koulibaly.

[1] On 11 July 2013, Ouedraogo was elected president of the newly formed African Women in Mathematics Association.

[5] She gave a talk entitled "Mathematics and Women: Different Regions, Similar Struggles" at the ICWM forum in August 2014.