Under The Patronage of The Custodian of The Two Holy Mosques King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Bady Balde

Deputy Executive Director
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)
Bady Balde

Mamadou Bady Baldé provides strategic oversight of implementation in all EITI member
countries. He also guides EITI’s policy work, including transparency in commodity trading, stateowned enterprises (SOEs), artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) and public financial
management.
Before joining the EITI, Bady worked at the Central Bank of Guinea and the German Development
Corporation (GIZ) and as a consultant for the World Bank. In 2012, Bady was seconded as an
expert in natural resource governance to the African Development Bank.
Bady holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration in International Development from the
Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, and a Master’s degree in Business
Administration from the University of Conakry. He is based in Oslo, Norway and has been with the
EITI for over 10 years