Marie Odile Bonkoungou-Balima born Marie Odile Balima (born December 15, 1961) was her country's Minister for Education for six years and then the Burkinabé ambassador to Germany.
She studied at the University of Ouagadougou from 1981 to 1985 and graduated with a master's degree in business law.
She was her ministry's member at the Association for the Development of Education in Africa from 2005 to 2011.
Her reception in Berlin was made by Horst Seehofer on his first day of exercising the powers of Germany's Federal President.
[4] Whilst she was in Kyiv she also met fellow ex-pats in the country.