Mr. Lassané Kabore is the Minister of Economy, Finance and Development of Burkina Faso.

During his professional career, Mr. Kabore held the positions of Senior Treasury Inspector and Research Officer to the Director General of Treasury and Public Accounting of Burkina Faso, Director of Monetary and Financial Affairs (at the former Treasury Department) from March 2001 to September 2008, concurrently with the post of Commissioner for National Privatization Commission of Burkina Faso. He has held managerial position on Economic and Monetary Integration at the ECOWAS Commission. During his tenure as Head of Monetary and Financial Affairs Department, Mr. Kabore led major reforms in the micro-finance sector, public institutions, public funds and public enterprises as well as coordinating the issuance of government securities (Treasury bills and bonds).

He holds a Treasury Inspector‟s Diploma (1996), one-year Postgraduate Degree (D.E.A., Diplôme d'études approfondies) in Economics, specializing in Macroeconomics, from the University of Ouagadougou (1997), Postgraduate Diploma (DESS) in Business Management and Strategy, obtained from the University of Paris, Panthéon Sorbonne (2000) and a Diploma from the Centre for Financial, Economics and Banking Studies (CEFEB) of the French Development Agency (2000).