[1] Touré studied in Mali and France, earning degrees in economics and finance.
He was a professor at Mali's National School of Administration (École nationale d'administration) and the University of Mali from 1980 to 2000, and he also held high positions in the state administration; he was Director-General of Financial Control from 1978 to 1987, Director-General of the Budget from 1987 to 1991, and Technical Adviser to the Ministry of the Economy and Finance from 1991 to 1994.
[1][2] Later, he worked as a consultant on finance and the economy for international organizations, including the World Bank, from 1995 to 2000,[2] and he worked in a regional role as Public Finance Commissioner of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA)[3] from 2001 to 2005.
He became Technical Adviser to the UEMOA Commission, in charge of public finance and fiscal policy, in 2005.
[5] He was then moved into the Malian government as Minister of the Economy and Finance on 9 April 2009.