M. Ibrahim Seydi is the CEO of GAA and SAFIC (www.safic-africa.com) an African finance, investment and consulting company based in Dakar, Senegal and Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

M. Seydi is a financial economist specializing in international finance and has conducted numerous feasibility studies and investment advice in the areas of industrial and agricultural expansion, commercial banking and financial sector development, public and private institutional strengthening, infrastructure, telecommunications and information technology development.

M. Seydi has conducted training programs at the World Bank's Economic Development Institute in Washington, D.C., for senior executives of private companies and financial institutions.

He has work at the World Bank as an Economist and at the African Development Bank as a Senior Financial Analyst, primarily responsible for identifying, appraising and supervising viable private sector projects in 16 African countries. Prior to joining these international institutions, he was a senior executive at Société Générale de Banques au Senegal, a leading commercial bank in Senegal.
In addition to his role at SAFIC, Mr. Seydi is the Managing Director of Générale Alimentaire Africaine, but also he is the President of SOCAAS ( SOCIÉTÉ COOPÉRATIVE DES ACTEURS DE L’AGROPOLE SUD). SOCAAS is a company with over five hundred smoll and medium agribusinesss companes based in Casamance with( south of Senegal), dealing with agroprocessing of local products.https://socaas-sn.com/ ).

He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of several private companies in the fields of energy, agro-industry, biotechnology and construction in West Africa.

M. Seydi holds a doctorate in Financial Economics from the Atlantic International University, USA, a Masters in Finance and a Masters in Development Banking from the American University of Washington, USA, and a Bachelors Degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Grenoble, France.

He is bilingual in English and French speaks fluently five african languages and understands Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese. He has traveled extensively in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and in the American continent.