Mamadou Barro is an Investment Specialist for West and Central Africa and the Caribbean Region at the United Nations Capital Development Fund. Mamadou is a seasoned banker and development finance specialist with over 20 years of accumulated experience in business development, banking, project finance, corporate finance, and SMEs financing, mostly matured in the private sector and development finance institutions across Africa and Middle East.

Mamadou’s work spans across designs of blended finance mechanisms and structures, resource mobilization, and deployment of capital while partnering with other UN Agencies. Prior to joining UNCDF, Mamadou led for six years the Africa office of the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), which is a member of the Islamic Development Bank Group. He also spent three years secondment as a CEO of Tamweel Africa Holding an Islamic Banking Group based in Senegal. He also served on several boards of banks in Niger, Senegal, Mauritania, and Guinea as well in an Islamic fund in Malaysia. Earlier in his career, Mamadou worked at Shelter-Afrique in Kenya as Investment Officer and Bank of Africa Burkina as Risk Officer.

A citizen of Burkina Faso, he obtained a Global MBA degree from IE Business School. Mamadou speaks English and French.