About Marie Françoise Ouedraogo
Marie Françoise Ouedraogo (born 3 December 1967) is the first woman from Burkina Faso to earn a doctorate in mathematics. She is an Assistant Professor at the department of Mathematics of University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso She has previously served in government as permanent secretary of the national policy of good governance. == Biography == Born in December 1967, Ouedraogo was raised in Ouagadougou. She was drawn to the study of mathematics at a young age as she received good grades without putting forth much effort. She was educated at the University of Ouagadougou, where she wrote her first thesis (Doctorat de 3ème cycle) on Lie superalgebras in 1999. Akry Koulibaly served as her doctoral adviser. From 2005 to 2008 Ouedraogo served as the permanent secretary of the national policy of good governance. She was committed to ending forms of corruption, especially in the realm of public transport. According to her, good governance is a state of mind. She then prepared a Ph.D. thesis at Blaise Pascal University of Clermont-Ferrand in France under the co-direction of Sylvie Paycha and Akry Koulibaly.
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