Awa Thiongane -Senegal- (1950)
She is the first woman to serve as Head of official statistics of an African country. After her graduate studies in mathematics and statistics, which were attested in 1975 by a diploma as statistician-economist delivered by ENSAE-Paris, her entire career is devoted to official statistics in Africa. In her country first and then to the Statistical Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, which she joined after having managed the National Directorate of Forecasting and Statistics from 1980 to 1987.
