Aissatou Bah

2024 - present

Aissatou Bah is a Senior Program Officer (Gender Norms Learning Agenda, GNLA) at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The GNLA team is tasked with sourcing learning and evidence to support leveraging entertainment media and cultural influence to effect societal-wide changes/shifts in norms that impact health, economic, and safety outcomes for adolescent girls and young women. Based out of Nigeria, she anchors the team’s grantmaking and strategy in Africa.

Aissatou has previously worked for Empower-The Emerging Markets Foundation, BRAC USA, and the Government of Sierra Leone. She has over 15 years of experience working on girls’ and young people’s rights, programs, and movements. She exists to support, platform, and resource young Africans and their stories as a path to bringing about a more just and equitable world. Aissatou grew up between Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone was formally educated at the University of Ghana, New York University, and the University of California, Los Angeles.