He was born in Kindia Prefecture in 1951. After finishing his primary education in his hometown, he went to Conakry to study at the Lycée Technique de Donka. From 1968 to 1974 he studied in
Ivory Coast before travelling to the United States, where he studied at
University of Maryland and the
University of Pennsylvania. He worked as an engineer at
General Electric Power Systems from 1975 to 1983. From 1983 to 1994 he worked at
Voice of America. Since 1994 he helped found AIS International incorporated, a company dealing in telecommunications, mining and energy. He worked as a researcher at Bells Laboratories (AT&T), Whippany, New Jersey). He has also been involved in the founding of numerous companies including: SODITEV, GANGAN TV et Radio, the Abé Sylla foundation, and Balla Mining développement SA. In Politics, he was elected in 2020 as a Deputy in the Chamber of Ministers,
Guinea's National Assembly, where he served on the Parliamentary Commission on Management of Territories, Transportation, Energy and
Hydropower. He is the president of
New Generation for the Republic, an opposition party. In November 2021, following the Coup d'État led by
Mamady Doumbouya, he was appointed
Minister of Energy, Hydropower and Hydrocarbons. == References ==