Aminata Touré became the Prime Minister of Senegal from 2013 to 2014. She is the second female Prime Minister of Senegal after Mame Madior Boye. She served as Justice Minister from 2012 to 2014 and became well-known and immensely popular for far reaching anti-corruption campaigns. As a justice minister she worked to reform the judicial system by reducing the time, the citizens had to wait for trial. She is a special envoy of President Macky Sall for internal and External Affairs. Toure holds a PhD in International Business Administration and Finance. She has also done masters in Economics. In addition, her areas of competence include Economy, Good governance, and Gender. She has worked as human rights and women’s rights activist within Senegal and around the world. She was the Director for the Gender and Human Rights World at United Nations Population Funds in New York from 2009 to 2012. She was program Director for the Gender and HIV program in West Africa. She was also a Senior Advisor in UNFPA Headquarters from 2003 to 2009, UNFPA Senior advisor in Cote d Ivoire from 1998 to 2001 and UNFPA Senior advisor in Burkina Faso from 1996 to 1997. At UNFPA she was the chief of the gender rights and culture branch. She there pushed to get all sorts of people and agencies and even governments to begin to think and act more seriously about “gender mainstreaming”. She argued that women’s empowerment and gender equality are key to any kind of health program. She led more than 30 UNFPA worldwide publications.

She led several Presidential election observation missions including in Mauritius, Liberia and Kenya. Every woman who rises to a certain level of achieving the government becomes the Iron Lady in press. Toure thus is known as the Iron Lady. She has been listed in 50 years of people making change at Icons and Activists at UNFPA list.