Ali Diouf
General Manager
+35 years of experience
Areas of expertise
Maritime and port management · Corporate strategy · Governance · Marketing
Holding a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from American universities (1994) specializing in management and marketing, Ali Diouf also holds a certificate from the Integrated Management Program of the National School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM, Dakar), the National School of Public Administration (ENAP, Quebec, 1989), and a Certificate in Port Management and Organization – Hazardous Products and Statistics (University of Antwerp, Belgium, 1989).
He has over thirty years of experience in management, particularly in maritime and port management (more than 20 years at the Port of Dakar, where he successively held the positions of Head of the Equipment Division, Internal Auditor, Director of the Fishing Port, and Commercial and Strategic Planning Director), before establishing his own consulting firm. He has served as a director of major state-owned companies, including the National Railway Company of Senegal (SNCF), Trade Point Senegal, the Senegalese Warehouses in Mali, and the Senegalese Shippers' Council (COSEC).
In addition to managing the operation of the Dakar-Gorée maritime link, he was a consultant and head of mission for the study on the "modernization of the Dakar-Ziguinchor Maritime Link." He also served as mayor of the HLM district (Dakar) from 2009 to 2014. He is fully bilingual in French and English.







