Siga Fatima Jagne is a Gambian feminist scholar and administrator.
She is the Commissioner for Social Affairs and Gender at ECOWAS.
Siga Fatima Jagne has a MA from Cornell University in 1989,[1] and gained her PhD in 1994 from the State University of New York at Binghamton, with a thesis on the writers Mariama Bâ and Bessie Head.
[2] As ECOWAS Commissioner for Social Affairs and Gender, in November 2019 she helped launch 50 Million African Women Speak (50MAWS), a digital platform to help women in Africa access information to help them grow their businesses.
[3] In June 2020, speaking on World Refugee Day in Abuja, Jagne promised that ECOWAS would support member states to help those affected by the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Sahel.