Yacine Fal

Yacine Fal is a Senegalese lawyer and corporate executive. Currently, she serves as the Acting Vice President at the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), responsible for "Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery", effective 17 December 2021. Before that, from November 2020 until December 2021, she was the Director General in the Cabinet of the President of the AfDB.

In 2014, she was posted to Rabat, Morocco, serving there as the Resident Representative of the AfDB's Morocco Office, for the next three years. In 2016, African Development Bank President appointed her Deputy Director General of the North Africa Business Development and Service Delivery Office. In November 2020, she was promoted to the position of Director General, in the Cabinet of the President of the AfDB, reporting directly to Akinwumi Adesina, the AfDB president.

She was then appointed Officer Responsible for the Procurement and Fiduciary Services Department, serving there from 2010 until 2011. She was the Manager of the Procurement Services Division, from 2008 until 2013.

Fal joined the AfDB in 1998, as the Principal Legal Counsel in the procurement unit of the bank, serving in that capacity for the next nine years. She then worked as the Manager of the Reform Implementation Team in the office of the President of the AfDB for one year, ending in 2008.