Mr. Ousmane Fall SARR

Director of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation at the Agence Sénégalaise d’Electrification Rurale (ASER).

Mr. Ousmane Fall SARR is Director of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation at the Agence Sénégalaise d’Electrification Rurale (ASER), and holds a degree in geological engineering with a specialization in the environment.

Since 2005, Mr SARR has been regularly involved as a Senegalese delegate in international negotiations on climate change under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

From 2011 to 2020, he developed several national climate change policies and programmes as Chairman of Senegal’s National Climate Change Committee on behalf of Senegal’s Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development.

Mr. SARR has worked for 22 years in Senegal’s energy sector, and has participated in the design and current implementation of Senegal’s innovative universal access rural electrification program, based on a public-private partnership while integrating carbon markets, climate finance, and numerous innovative financing instruments for resource mobilization.

In 2016, with the support of some West African delegates, he initiated the creation of the West African Alliance on Carbon Markets and Climate Finance at Cop 22 in Marrakech.