Prior to AFIG, Lalya was the Senior Financial Advisor to the CFO of Dakar-based ASECNA, a regional African aviation security institution. She was responsible for sourcing and negotiating ASECNA’s debt financing program (approximately 174 billion, or US$348 million, for the 2000-2006 period.) She also has oversight responsibility of ASECNA’s major financial initiatives and accounting functions. Prior to ASECNA, Lalya was a Senior Auditor with Ernst and Young in Paris and worked on a number of assignments in a wide range of industries: Media, Information Technology, and Hospitality in France as well as on a number of high-profile energy transactions in Africa (Senegal, Cameroon, and Algeria.) Following business school at Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (EDHEC) in Lille, France, Lalya started her career as a financial analyst in the Credit Department of the Central Bank of Mauritania. Lalya grew up in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Russia. She is a citizen of Mauritania.