Harouna Kaboré

The Think Tank is also producing a documentary film on "100 years (1919-2019) of Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso".

The film "Witba" by director Apolline Traoré is another initiative to highlight the role played by Burkinabè women in the socio-economic and political construction of Burkina Faso over the last hundred years.

Godo is in the province of Boulkiemdé (Central West Region), in the canton of Konkistenga, where the illustrious Philipe Zinda KABORE (Voltaic politician and former deputy for the Ivory Coast colony in the French Assembly in 1946) also hails from.

Dr Harouna Kaboré completed his primary and part of his secondary education in Côte d'Ivoire.

Harouna Kaboré was born on July 24, 1977 in Assuefry (eastern Côte d'Ivoire, in the Tanda prefecture).

He's a politician and consutant

Dr Harouna Kaboré was born on July 24, 1977 in Assuefry (eastern Côte d'Ivoire, in the Tanda prefecture).

In 1994-1995, he returned to his native Burkina Faso to continue his studies in Barsalogho, in the Sanmatenga province (north-central region), where his older brother was an English teacher.

In 1995, he obtained his "brevet d'études du premier cycle" (Midle School diploma).

His performance in the middle school exam earned him a scholarship from the government of Burkina Faso.

He was then sent to the Lycée Technique de Ouagadougou (LTO), now the Lycée National El Hadj Général Sangoulé Lamizana, in the industrial technology class.

In 1999, Dr Harouna Kaboré graduated High School with a specialization in Electronics.

He was admitted to the Polytechnic University of Bobo Dioulasso (now Nazi Boni University) on a state scholarship.

He obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Maintenance in 2001.

His father (who died in 2005) was a Burkinabè national who emigrated to Côte d'Ivoire before independence, where he developed cocoa and coffee plantations.

He had three wives and sixteen (16) children.

Dr Harouna Kaboré is the second youngest of nine (9) children born to his mother, his father's first wife.

Dr Harouna Kaboré and his brothers and sisters had a happy childhood, divided between school and work in the fields.

During their school vacations and free time, the boys helped their father in the fields and played soccer in inter-village tournaments.

Dr Harouna Kaboré remains nostalgic for a peaceful childhood in his green and peaceful native village.

As the son of a farmer, he remains very attached to agriculture.

In addition to his other entrepreneurial activities, this has led him to invest in cotton farming in Burkina, and to travel regularly to the fields in Côte d'Ivoire that he and his siblings inherited from his father.

Dr Harouna KABORE, very attached to his culture, regularly visits his extended family in Godo, his native village in Burkina Faso.

Thanks to his jobs in private companies in Burkina Faso, he was able to fund his studies in France for the 2005-2006 academic year.

In 2006, he obtained a professional degree in multi-technical maintenance engineering from the IUT of SENART of Université Paris 12 (now Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne).

Dr Harouna Kaboré continued his studies in France at the Université Paris Est- Marne-la-vallée, where he obtained a Master’s degree in Facility, Enterprises and Services Management in 2008.

During his studies at the university, he worked at TF1 television.

Married since 2009 to an entrepreneur in the publishing and printing sector, Dr Harouna Kaboré has two sons.

His wife is by his side, providing him with advice and support in his professional and civic life.

Coming from a close-knit family, Dr Harouna Kaboré can also count on the support of his brothers, sisters, uncles and his mother, with whom he shares a special bond.

Since high school, Dr Harouna Kaboré has had a passion for Art and Culture.

Involved in his high school (LTO ) dance and theater troupe, he was coached by traditional dance icon Esther Marty KOUYATE.

He was an actor in the play adapted from the novel "De la chaire au trône" by Hamadou Kourouma, directed by Alain HEMA and Charles OUATTARA.

This passion for culture, which he considers to be one of Africa's most important assets, accompanied him throughout his youth and made him a seasoned sponsor and advocate of Burkinabe cultural projects.

Dr Harouna Kaboré went on to study business administration at the Académie des Sciences de Management in Paris, starting in 2017, and obtained his doctorate by defending his thesis on artificial intelligence in June, 2022 in Paris.

The Thesis was "Influence de l'intelligence économique sur la prospective : Cas de l'étude nationale prospective du Burkina à l'horizon 2060".

In 2017, he initiated and supported the production of a theatrical adaptation of journalist Norbert Zongo's novel Rougbêinga.

His Think tank Burkina International has produced the documentary "Devoir de mémoire sur la reconstruction de la Haute Volta".

The film is regularly screened in various locations, as an opportunity for Burkinabé to learn more about their country's history.

He was Minister of Commerce, Industry and Handicrafts of Burkina faso from January 2018 to December 2021.