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November 24, 2025
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At the heart of the IUGB education is a learning experience that develops critical thinking, creative problem-solving, ethical reasoning, and effective leadership.
Dr. Lassana Tiote brings over 20 years of distinguished experience to his role as Secretary General/Vice President of IUGB, appointed in September 2025. Born in Kongasso, Côte d'Ivoire, in 1974, Dr. Tiote holds a PhD in Management Sciences from CNAM University in Paris, specializing in Human Resources Management. His extensive career spans more than 15 years in senior managerial positions within training, higher education, and research institutions across Africa and Europe. From February 2014 to September 2025, he held various leadership positions at the African Center for Higher Studies in Management (CESAG) in Dakar, Senegal, where he demonstrated exceptional expertise in strategic human resources management, organizational development, and institutional governance in multicultural environments.
Dr. Tiote's triple professional profile as HR Director, Lecturer-Researcher, and Consultant uniquely positions him to lead IUGB's administrative and strategic operations. He is a committed advocate for human capital development in business and education, serving as a member of the Association of HR Directors of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) and Vice President of the International Association of Social Auditing. His scholarly contributions include over a dozen research papers and publications in prestigious journals, with recent works examining organizational equity, HR management practices, and commercial performance in West African contexts. His publications have appeared in French scientific journals including Question(s) de Management (EMS Editions, 2022) and REVUE CEDRES-ETUDES (2021), as well as the collective work The Informal Economy, Entrepreneurship and Employment (JFD Publishing, Montreal, 2017), demonstrating his thought leadership in management sciences and human resources strategy throughout the UEMOA region.
The Office of the Secretary General of the International University of Grand-Bassam (IUGB) serves as the administrative and strategic hub of the university, coordinating administrative, financial, and legal management while ensuring institutional compliance and operational excellence. Under the authority of the President, this essential unit is responsible for communications, institutional relations, control and auditing, and the smooth running of university operations.
Dr. Lassana Tiote, Secretary General/Vice President, leads this pivotal office, coordinating the activities of seven key departments: Human Resources; Audit, Control, Monitoring, Evaluation and Quality Control; Communication, Relations with Institutions and Partnerships; the Centre for Continuing Education and Executive Training; Alumni Relations; Security; and the service in charge of Collection, Student Scholarship and Financial Aid. This comprehensive oversight ensures effective governance, interdepartmental coordination, and the successful implementation of strategic decisions across the university.
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Fatima Doumbia Koné is a Mathematics lecturer at the international University of
Grand-Bassam (IUGB). Among the courses she taught we have the following: Introduction to
Differential Equations, Elementary Statistics, Calculus(I,II,III), Transforms in Applied Math,
Introduction to Linear Algebra, Operations Research and Abstract Algebra.
She has a Bachelor degree in Mathematics (IUGB), a Master degree in Pure and Applied
Mathematics (AUST) and she is currently enrolled for a PhD in Mathematics at the African
University of Science and Tecnology (AUST), Abuja. She has also been an intern at the
Institutional Banking Group department within GTBANK CI (Garanty Trust Bank Côte
D’Ivoire).
She is a former IUGB student and she was the president of the science club in 2015.
Academically, her goal is to be a great researcher and innovator on the topics of asymptotic
theories in Fuzzy Probability Theory and their various applications to image processing. She
has good programming skills (JAVA, LaTeX, C++) and she is bilingual (French and English).
Over the years, she has been developing a method of teaching which not only put students at
the center of the learning process but also which deconstruct most of the stereotypes about the
inaccessibility of mathematical knowledge to everybody.
Regarding her research activities, she has been working since 2018 on the topic of integration
on Banach spaces and a preprint of an interesting work is available at
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.04480. She is continuing with her research on integration but now
her PhD studies focus on Random Sets Integration in Probability Theory. Professionally, she
is a very active lecturer at IUGB and she is currently the faculty advisor of the SHE CLUB,
which aims at promoting women empowerment by providing learning, leadership and
networking opportunities.
I am currently Associate Professor of computer and data science in the school of science technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) at the International University of Grand-Bassam (IUGB).
From 2000 to 2018, I successively worked as a research scientist at Independent Computing Research in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Assistant Professor at the department of computer science and
engineering at Université Laval in Québec, Canada; Research Associate at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) where I also received a Ph.D. degree in computer science in March 2000. Upon receiving a master's degree in mathematical and computing science
from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT) in 1990 in Japan, I worked as a research scientist at National/Panasonic, one of the most prestigious companies in Tokyo.
I am involved in research on Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Semantic Web and its applications in a wide range of fields. Besides, I designed the current Data Science program in effect
since September 2021 in STEM. In addition, I am also one the founders and current President of the
Ivorian Association of Artificial Intelligence and member of ORBICOM, the Network of UNESCO Chairs in Communication headquartered in University of Quebec in Montreal (UQUAM), Canada.
Kwame Simpe Ofori is an Assistant Professor in Finance at the school of Business and Social Sciences. He holds a doctorate degree in Finance, a master’s degree in finance and a master’s degree in Telecommunications Technology. He is also currently a PhD student at the School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He has taught courses in the areas of finance, computer science, computer and electrical engineering, and telecommunication engineering. Before joining IUGB he lectured in several universities in Ghana. He also worked with Ghana Telecommunications Company as a support engineer. His research interests are in the areas of consumer behaviour, technology adoption and trust in online systems and in recent times financial econometrics. His papers have appeared in several CABS-ranked journals such as Information Technology and People, Journal of Cleaner Productions, Quality Management Journal, Marketing Intelligence and Planning, International Journal of Bank Marketing, Total Quality Management and Business Excellence, Journal of African Business, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology and Society and Business Review.
