Gnagna Lam is Senior Advisor to the Minister of Finance and Budget of Senegal. In this role, she coordinates Senegal’s engagement with the World Bank Group, overseeing the country's engagement with the Group’s institutions and overseeing the structuring and negotiation of strategic projects. She also oversees the energy sector, where she acts as Board member and Audit Committee Chair in several state-owned companies, and leads high-level financing negotiations.
Previously, Ms. Lam was Director of Business Support Services at PETROSEN Trading & Services, where she developed corporate strategy, oversaw budgeting, planning, digital innovation. Earlier, she served as Senior Analyst at COS-PETROGAZ, coordinating the conception of to national strategies for sustainable, transparent development of Senegal’s oil and gas sector, including the negotiation of major host government agreements and the drafting of the country’s local content law.
Ms. Lam began her career in financial and operational auditing at Ernst & Young in Dakar. She holds a Master of Science in Strategic Management from HEC Paris and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, from Carleton College in the United States. She is fluent in French, English and Wolof, and proficient in Spanish, she has worked across West Africa, in Europe, and in North America.
