Vanessa Koutouan

Vanessa Koutouan (born 1988) is an Ivorian women's rights activist. She is the director of the Rural Center Ilomba, an educational initiative in the Bingerville area of the Ivory Coast that promotes the education of girls.

Early life Vanessa Koutouanwas born in Abidjan, the capital of the Ivory Coast, the youngest of seven siblings, and the daughter of deeply Christian parents.

Koutouan earned a bachelor's degree from the Institute of Sciences and Techniques of Communication at the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny in Abidjan, followed by a master's degree in hotel management and pedagogy in Italy.

Career She is the director of the Rural Center Ilomba, an educational initiative in the Bingerville area of the Ivory Coast that promotes the education of girls because families in this country used to priorize the education of boys over girls.

Awards On 3 March 2015, Koutouan received the annual Harambee "African Woman" in a ceremony in Madrid, "for the promotion and equality of African women".