Yvonne Libona Bonzi Coulibaly

Yvonne Libona Bonzi-Coulibaly is the first female doctorate in chemistry in Burkina Faso, a full professor at the University of Ouagadougou, Bonzi-Coulibaly earned a doctorate at Strasbourg-I University in organic chemistry from Guy Ourisson. She is a member of the Academy of Sciences of Burkina Faso. she has been the Director-General of Burkina Faso's Institute of Sciences which was created in 2004.

In 2020, in partnership with the academic and scientific cooperation of higher education establishments of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, she began working with Pascal Gerbaux on organic farming and market gardening to replace synthetic inputs with bio-inputs.

Awards 2013: African Union Kwame Nkrumah Prize

Publications Removal of COD in wastewaters by activated charcoal from rice husk, Yacouba Sanou, Samuel Pare, Gnon Baba, Nyonuwosro Kwamivi Segbeaya et Libona Yvonne Bonzi-Coulibaly, Revue des sciences de l’eau / Journal of Water Science, Vol. 29, No. 3, pgs. 265–277, 2016, issn: 0992-7158, issn2: 1718-8598, doi: 10.7202/1038927ar.