Mame Diop-Ba

Biography

Mame Diop-Ba is Chief Operating Officer of Orange Cloud & Cyber Solutions, a subsidiary of Orange Côte d’Ivoire Group, in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, where she oversees cloud, unified communication and cybersecurity services for a major telecom group and its business customers, from banks to government institutions.
Her 17 years in the field rest on one idea: cybersecurity is a business enabler, because it creates the trust on which digital growth depends. Trust is what allows an operator to launch a mobile money service with confidence, or a bank and a public institution to adopt managed services while keeping control of their data. She learned it step by step, from supporting 14 Orange subsidiaries across Africa and the Middle East, to serving as CISO of Orange Côte d’Ivoire, then leading IT and operations. Cybersecurity earns its place when it speaks the language of the business and builds that trust, so that growth is made possible, not slower.
Named a #CyberHeroïne by Africa CyberSecurity Mag in 2025, she is also sponsor of the first two cohorts of a cybersecurity and AI master’s programme at the Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny (INP-HB), Côte d’Ivoire’s national polytechnic institute. She was the official sponsor of the first Women Empowerment in Cybersecurity (WEC) forum, held in Abidjan in March 2025 to open pathways into cyber careers for women, and she mentors young women in tech through the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations agency for information and communication technologies. As a Fellow, she brings an African operator’s perspective to the questions of digital trust, sovereignty and skills, with a particular interest in preparing the next generation of tech leaders.