Céline Yoda

Céline Yoda (born April 6, 1958) is a Burkinabé politician. She was the ambassador of Burkinabe in Taiwan (R.O.C) from 2013-2017.

She also served as the Minister for the Promotion of Women, having formerly been the Ambassador for Burkina Faso to Denmark.

Early life and education Yoda received her diploma from the École Normale Supérieure d’Enseignement Technique et Professionnel in Dakar, Senegal, where she studied social and familial economics. Before serving in public office, she spent a long career working for non-governmental organizations and some government groups.

Political career She was the first female secretary general of SPONG (the Secrétariat Permanent des ONG, Burkina Faso's organization of NGO's); she served in this position for two terms. She also worked for a time for the United Nations in Burkina Faso as a national expert on "population creation and development". She was subsequently named as the Burkina Faso's Ambassador to Denmark, and held that post until 2007 when she returned to her country to become the Minister for the Promotion of Women once more. She remained in this post until 2011, when she was replaced in the role by Nestorine Sangaré.

She was named her country's Ambassador to Denmark once again in 2016. Following her duties in Copenhagen, she returned to the Burkina Faso government as the Minister for the Promotion of Women again.