Kady Kanouté Tounkara is an Olympian who competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games as a co-captain of the Mali women’s basketball team. She was a professional player in Europe and a five-time French National Junior Champion before completing her Marketing and Management degree from Fordham University in New York. Kady is a Master Trainer and Steering Committee member of the International Olympic Committee’s Career+ Program and the International Red Cross Committee’s’ Career Development Program for persons with physical disabilities. She has facilitated workshops in over 50 countries and has recently been appointed as Chair of the WADA Education Committee. She is also the Chair of the Malian Athletes’ commission and an African Continental Athletes Commission Member and the co-founder of the Pan-African Sports Foundation”
