Member of a study team working on African Competitiveness in Simple, Light Manufactured Products and Editor of the volume « Technology, Adaptation and Exports: How Some Developing Countries Did It », with 10 case studies from different sectors - agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, forestry, fishery, electronics and software.

Prior to that, She was a Special Adviser to two Ministers in Angola, her home country: the Angolan Minister of Environment where she also served as Ambassador responsible for Climate Change. In the Department of the minister of Agriculture Mme Sacko oversaw Food Security, Eradication of Hunger and Poverty Reduction. The former Secretary General of the Inter African Coffee Organization (IACO) for 13 years in Cote D’Ivoire where she represented Coffee economy for 25 African Coffee producing countries. During her tenure, she successfully advocated for the empowerment of small scale coffee farmers across the continent by setting up Regional Centres of Excellence for Capacity Building of Member States, on Genetic Material Conservation, Coffee Quality Improvement and Cup Tasting Liquor in Cote d’Ivoire, Uganda, Camero on and Zambia. Madam Sacko is one of the African Women Africa should be proud of, and she has built up her international profile and reputation by working with Regional, Global Institutional on Agriculture and many other sectors supported by World Trade Organization (WTO), African Union (AU), International Coffee Organization (ICO), African Development Bank (AFDB), African Bank for Export and Import (AFREXIMBANK), (FAO), UNECA, NEPAD etc. The other notable cooperation/partnerships she has worked with include the Regional Economic Communities (RECS), namely, SADC, COMESA, ECOWAS and EAC, where she has actively participated to address the challenges encountered by small scale farmers in Africa, ensuring that they remain a central focus in regional and national policy making for development. Madam Sacko speaks fluent Portuguese, French, English, Spanish and Lingala.

His primary focus is on investment banking and project finance in the energy and infrastructure sectors. Advisor for a variety of governments and private clients on transactions involving real assets, including high-speed rail, urban transit systems, seaports, liquid natural gas (LNG), upstream oil and gas, toll roads, water infrastructure, conventional/renewable power, and social infrastructures. Former investor and developer at Enviva Partners LP and project finance associate at Taylor-deJongh, an emerging markets investment advisory firm.

He Works for the IOM since 1994 and was previously Chief of Mission in Afghanistan (2013-16). He contributed to initiating the Bali Process on migrant smuggling, human trafficking and the related transnational crime. He was also a founding member of the steering committee of the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT) and Chair of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Council on Illicit Trade and Organized Crime. He is now a member of the WEF’s Board on the future of migration.