graduated from the Burgundy School of Business in Dijon, France in 1982. She is a Chartered Accountant and a member of ONECCA Senegal (Ordre national des Experts Comptables et Comptables Agréés du Sénégal). She started as an Accountant and then Financial Administrator at the Ford Foundation West Africa Regional Office in Dakar from 1984 to 1991. After that, she joined “Research and Support Program for Farmers Associations” that led to the creation of the West Africa Rural Foundation, where she served as Financial and Administrative Director. She founded her own firm MECA in 1999, which has a portfolio of clients mainly comprised of non-profit entities. Oumou is Treasurer of Access Agriculture.