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	Ciré


Title and Organization:		Founder & Executive Director, Synapse Center
Country of Residence:		Senegal
Country of Birth:		Senegal
Nationalities:		Senegalese
Citizenships:		Senegal
Languages:		French , English , Wolof , Toucouleur



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About Me

Ciré is the founder and executive director of the Synapse Center (www.synapsecenter.org), whose mission are to strengthen the capacity of promising entrepreneurs and their ventures to develop innovative solutions to social and environmental problems and to unleash the untapped potential of creativity, expertise and resources of youth in Senegal and West Africa. Ciré believes that leadership potential exists within youth and their organizations and communities. His commitment is to create a context in which they can work with each other and with mentors to deliver results. His approach is anchored in the depth of human spirit and centered on the dynamic of progress.

Ciré is also working with the Berkana Institute (www.berkana.org) to develop a global community of local leadership learning centers that are giving birth to new forms, processes and systems that represent hope for the future. In the past, he hosted for two years in Africa the Global Initiative of the Berkana Institute, ‘From the Four Directions: People Everywhere Leading the Way (www.fromthefourdirections) to promote the astonishing benefit of Life-Affirming Leadership.

For two years prior to working full-time with Synapse Center, Ciré was a Cultivation Unit member and a Global facilitator of Pioneers of Change (www.pioneersofchange.net), a global learning community of committed young change agents who come together to connect with their deeper values and ideals and to generate innovative solutions to challenges faced in their communities and organizations. Under the banner of PoC, he worked on building an African community of pioneers of change, and participated in the development of the African Treasures and the Engaging Change programmes. He also get involved in a various learning journeys hosted by the network around the world. He now serves the community as a Steward and a Chaord Group member.

He is a founding member of the Senegalese Yes Country Network (www.yesweb.org) and is working under this banner to promote youth employment in Africa throughout the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD).

Ciré is an Ashoka fellow since 2008.

Ciré has firsthand experience of various learning processes (future search, open space technology, world café, appreciative inquiry, leadership circle) in creating a safe learning community that supports dialogue, collective learning and expression of diversity.

In his University years, Ciré worked as President of Action Citoyenne, and has held later executive positions with the Forum Civil, the Gaston Berger University UNESCO Club, the Convention des “Jeunes du Baol”, all of which allowed him to work in various initiatives, including housing street children and developing projects eradicating poverty, promoting corporate citizenship, building democracy and a lot of training interventions and empowering programmes for youth organizations

Ciré graduated in Psychology of Education and Vocational Counseling from the Polytechnic High School of the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar and in Sociology from the Gaston Berger University of Saint Louis. In addition to his native Pular and Wolof, he also speaks French and English. He lives in Dakar, Senegal.

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