Mamadou Fall Kane

Mamadou Fall Kane is Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Strategic Orientation Committee for Oil and Gas (COS-PETROGAZ), the body created by the President of Senegal to strengthen the management of the country’s natural resources and to oversee state policy on its oil and gas projects. He was appointed in November 2016. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center, and he serves on the Advisory Board of the Africa Energy Technology Centre (AETC).

Kane joined the office of President Macky Sall in December 2012 as adviser on economics, finance and investment, and from 2016 to 2024 he was the President’s energy adviser alongside his post at COS-PETROGAZ. In 2017 he was entrusted with negotiating the intergovernmental cooperation agreement with Mauritania on the shared Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) gas field, heading the Senegalese delegation, and he has led and coordinated the development of the Sangomar oil field and the GTA gas project, which together represent some US$14 billion of investment. He was in charge of the Taiba Ndiaye wind farm, the first wind farm project in West Africa, and led solar power projects including one at Bokhol in northern Senegal.

Before joining the Presidency, Kane worked at the Directorate General of the Treasury in France’s Ministry of the Economy and Finance on financing the economy and industrial restructuring, and gained experience at the World Bank and at Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank in Paris. He graduated from Sciences Po Paris, completed his education in economics and public policy at the École Polytechnique, and holds an executive master’s degree in the management and finance of innovation from the University of California, Berkeley.

At COS-PETROGAZ he has been in charge of developing state policy on local content in oil, gas and mining and on the management of oil and gas revenues, and in 2017 he set up the National Institute of Oil and Gas (INPG), Senegal’s first training centre for its engineers, researchers and energy professionals. He has argued that Senegal’s gas can do more than earn export revenue, by supplying affordable energy for power plants and for industries that process minerals such as iron, phosphate and bauxite. In an October 2025 Atlantic Council report he called on African countries to place part of their critical mineral revenues in credible sovereign wealth funds, to manage the money transparently, shield their economies from price volatility and link resource wealth to industrial policy. He is often consulted by international media on energy, geopolitics and development finance.