Yacine Fal

Yacine Fal is a Senegalese lawyer and corporate executive. Currently, she serves as the Acting Vice President at the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), responsible for "Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery", effective 17 December 2021. Before that, from November 2020 until December 2021, she was the Director General in the Cabinet of the President of the AfDB.

Background and education She is a Senegalese national. She holds a Master of Laws degree, awarded by the University of Dakar. She also obtained a postgraduate degree in international law, from the University of Paris X.

Work experience Fal joined the AfDB in 1998, as the Principal Legal Counsel in the procurement unit of the bank, serving in that capacity for the next nine years. She then worked as the Manager of the Reform Implementation Team in the office of the President of the AfDB for one year, ending in 2008.