Aboubacar Koulibaly is Head of Country for Rio Tinto Guinée. 

Before joining Rio Tinto, Mr Koulibaly, a Guinean national, served for more than twenty years in Africa and the United States, working for leading international organisations and in the public sector. His experience includes roles at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), for which he served as Country Director in the Central African Republic and in Mali and oversaw UNDP operations in 46 countries. Mr. Koulibaly has also held senior positions within the Guinean public sector, including Minister of economic control and financial oversight. 

He holds a master’s degree in public administration from France’s École nationale d’administration (ENA) and has taken part in executive education programmes at Duke, UNC Chapel Hill and Harvard University.