Adam Kouyate
Bilingual Programs Manager, English/French (Volunteer)
Current Positions: Social Performance and ESG Manager, Société des Mines de Lafigué – Endeavour Mining
Short Bio: Adam Kouyate is an ESG and sustainability professional with more than 15 years of experience across mining, agro-industrial operations, and certified commodity sectors in West Africa. He currently leads social performance and ESG functions at Société des Mines de Lafigué, part of Endeavour Mining. His expertise includes sustainability risk management, stakeholder engagement, regulatory compliance, social-investment oversight, monitoring and evaluation, and environmental and social management systems. Fluent in French and professionally proficient in English, he supports CARSA’s bilingual programming, Francophone engagement, stakeholder communications, international partnerships, and delivery of English- and French-language initiatives.
Areas of Expertise: ESG and sustainability, social performance, stakeholder engagement, climate and social risk, monitoring and evaluation, program management, international partnerships, and bilingual communication.
Selected Qualifications and Accomplishments:
- More than 15 years of ESG, sustainability, and program-management experience.
- Master’s degree in Management and Business Administration.
- Master II in Health, Safety, Environment and Quality.
- Agricultural Engineering qualification from INP-HB Yamoussoukro.
- Developed a grievance-management system achieving approximately a 95% resolution rate.
- Launched more than 25 ESG improvement initiatives.
- Contributed to an approximately 15% reduction in selected environmental-impact indicators.
- Coordinated sustainability programs across more than 30 cooperatives involving approximately 5,000 farmers.
- Trained approximately 800 farmers in environmental and social practices.
- Managed partnerships involving GIZ, Nestlé, Ferrero, governments, NGOs, businesses, and communities.
- Holds professional training in ESG and social responsibility, environmental and social risk analysis, sustainable development, and ISO 14001 auditing.
