Madeleine Cisse

Mme Madeleine Cisse is the new Country Director for THP-Senegal.  Mme Cisse holds a bachelor’s degree in Hydraulics and Forestry from the Polytechnic University in Brasov, Romania and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the West African Higher Institute of Management Sciences in Dakar, Senegal. 

Mme Cisse bring to THP-Senegal a wealth of experience in project management, natural resource management, microfinance, micro-enterprise development, community economic development, and monitoring and evaluation. 

Prior to joining the Hunger Project, she was the Microfinance Support Administrator at Dynaentreprises, a $26 million USAID-funded project designed to promote decentralized financial systems and the growth of well-managed micro-enterprises, and also served as the Director for a $21 million USAID-funded project designed to build the capacity of NGOs and private organizations operating in Senegal (Projet d’Appui aux Organisations Privées et aux Organisations Non-Gouvernementales).  She also coordinated the “Comité Inter-Etats de Lutte Contre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel,” a nine-country partnership with the mission to prevent drought-related famine through the implementation of sustainable food security and natural resource management systems, and was the director of Hann Park, a protected forest and animal reserve in Dakar. 

Mme Cisse has also worked as a consultant for the FAO, the World Bank, and  the National Council of Negro Woman; and has participated in many international conferences including the World Microfinance Conference in 2001, the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio De Janeiro in 2002, and multiple negotiation sessions on desertification.