Fatima Fall Niang

Directrice du Centre de recherche et documentation du Senegal (CRDS), Université Gaston Berger
Ms. Fatima Fall NIANG has been a specialist in preventive conservation and manager of model cultural institutions at the Centre de Recherche et de Documentation du Sénégal, an institute of the Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis. She has worked there for 29 years (13 years at the museum and 16 years as the Center's director).
From 2000-2001, she was a consultant for WAMP in the program entitled: "Identification, Classification, Preservation, Interpretation of Photographic Collections in Museums and Archives in West Africa" funded by the Getty Grant Program, USA.
She was a member of the team that put together the file for the inscription of the Island of Saint-Louis on the World Heritage List, the inventory that followed and all the issues of conservation, safeguarding and promotion of cultural heritage and tourism in the northern zone. Since 2009, Mrs. NIANG is a member of the steering committee of the Tourism Development Program.
Since 1999, she has been involved in university courses at EPA. Since 2011, she teaches in the Professional Master in Tourism in LSH; from 2008 to 2012, she coordinated the model for the opening of the MDP section of the UFR CRAC at the UGB; From 2011-2012, she was a member of the design team of the model: "management and conservation of heritage" developed by the UEMOA out of 22 courses planned in the area. In 2017, she was co-opted as a member of the International Scientific Committee of the Amadou Mahtar MBOW University, in Diamniadio.
She is a UNESCO expert-referent for intangible heritage where she coordinated the registration file of the element "Ceebu jën" on the World Heritage List of Humanity, December 15, 2021. She is co-author of a book entitled: "Ceebu Jën, a Senegalese heritage" published on December 2, 2021.
Mrs. NIANG is a member of ICOMOS and ICOM of which she has been the head of the national committee since 2017.
She was decorated Knight in the Order of Academic Palms by France in March 2002 and in the National Order of Merit of Senegal in February 2020.