{"id":18524,"date":"2024-08-13T11:44:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T11:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/?page_id=18524"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:36:11","slug":"houda-babah","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/houda-babah","title":{"rendered":"Houda Mint Babah &#8211; Minister of Education and Educational Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BIOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Dr.Houda Mint Babah <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18525 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/HBabah-300x254.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/HBabah-300x254.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/HBabah-1024x866.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/HBabah-768x649.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/HBabah.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Born<\/strong>: 21 October 1982 in Nouakchott<br \/>\n<strong>Nationality<\/strong>: Mauritanian<br \/>\nMarried, 3 children<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Currently:<\/strong><br \/>\nOn 6 August, she was appointed Minister in charge of Education and the Reform of the Education System.<br \/>\n* Advisor to the Prime Minister in charge of National Education, Education<br \/>\nHigher Education and Scientific Research<br \/>\n* Lecturer and researcher at the University of Nouakchott, Faculty of Sciences and<br \/>\nTechniques (Department of Physics)<br \/>\n* Representative of North Africa in the Women in GMES &amp; Africa Program<br \/>\n2020 \u2013 2022<br \/>\n* Director of the University Center for Cartography and Remote Sensing, University of<br \/>\nNouakchott Al Aasriya (UNA)<br \/>\n2015 &#8211; 2022<br \/>\n* Member of the Executive Board of the High Council for Youth<br \/>\n2012 &#8211; 2015 :<br \/>\n* Project manager and head of Geomatics at Green Project.<br \/>\n2010 &#8211; 2012 :<br \/>\nConsultant Project Manager at &#8220;Maadin Natural Resources&#8221; and &#8220;Lusitania Mauritania&#8221; (Elaboration of Geological, Geophysical, Topographical and Topographical Maps<br \/>\nsatellite)<\/p>\n<p><strong>AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS<\/strong><br \/>\n* 24-30-2021 Laureate of the RAISA program for women&#8217;s leadership in Africa<br \/>\n* 16-11-2009: L&#8217;Or\u00e9al-UNESCO For Women in Science Award<\/p>\n<p>* 30-07-2005 : Prize of the Minister of National Education for the best average<br \/>\nof the FST of the University of Nouakchott.<br \/>\nFORMATION<br \/>\n* 2006-2010: PhD in Physics from the University of Rennes1, with the distinction of<br \/>\n(section: Milieus, danses et Mat\u00e9riaux).<br \/>\n* 2005-2006: Master II, University of Rennes 1, Physics and Interfaces (Fairly good)<br \/>\n* 2004-2005: Master&#8217;s degree in Physics, University of Nouakchott (Very good).<br \/>\n* 2003-2004: Bachelor&#8217;s degree in Physics, University of Nouakchott (Fairly good)<br \/>\n* 2001: Obtaining the Baccalaureate diploma, Mathematics series.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MASTERED SOFTWARE<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Geographic Information System<br \/>\nArcGis 9, 10 &#8211; ArcView<br \/>\nDatabase, Calculation, Writing and Presentation, Image Processing<br \/>\n&#8211; TeX, ORIGIN, Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Image, AdobIllustrator<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>LANGUAGES<\/strong><br \/>\nArabic: Mother tongue<br \/>\nFrench: Read, written and spoken<br \/>\nEnglish: Scientific English<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>CONGRESSES WORKS AND PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS<\/strong><br \/>\n* Louge M., Mint Babah H., Valance A., Moreau-Trouv\u00e9 J., Ould Ahmedou D, Ould<br \/>\nEl- Moctar A., Dupont P. Seepage-induced penetration of water vapour and dust<br \/>\nbeneath ripples and dunes. Journal of Geophysical Research. Vol. 115, F02002, 14pp.,<br \/>\n2010.<br \/>\n* Mint Babah H., Valance A., Ould Ahmedou D. &#8220;Experimental study on the<br \/>\ndetermination of the neutral angle of a granular pile&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2022Oral communication: Tunis Geospatial Conference, Tunis, May 2015. Subject: Tea<br \/>\ncontribution of the remote sensing under investigation of natural surfaces in<br \/>\nMauritania<br \/>\n* Oral communication: Khartoum, Sudan, June 2015. Topic: Use of News<br \/>\ntechnologies for the assessment of natural disasters and their impact in Mauritania.<\/h4>\n<p>* Oral communication: Regional Meeting for the Development of Networks<br \/>\nSmart Grid, Cape Verde, March 2013.<br \/>\n\u2022Oral communication: Meetings of the Research Group (GdR) \u00ab Transport<br \/>\nSolide Naturel&#8221;, Roscoff, November 2009. Subject: Stratigraphic study of the fraction<br \/>\nPage 3 of 3<br \/>\nand water content of the Aeolian dunes.<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/transnat.univ-<br \/>\nrennes1.fr\/themes\/Programme\/Roscoff2009\/<br \/>\n\u2022POSTER: International Conference &#8220;European Geosciences Union&#8221; (Vienna,<br \/>\nAustria) April 2008. Subject: Dielectric stratigraphy of density and humidity at a<br \/>\nBarchan Sand Dune.<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/meetings.copernicus.org\/www.cosis.net\/abstracts\/EGU2008\/08455\/EGU2008<br \/>\n-A- 08455.pdf<br \/>\nOral communication: Meetings of the Research Group (GdR) &#8220;Milieux<br \/>\nDivised&#8221;, (Carry-Le-Rouet, France), April 2007. Subject: Granular flow on a<br \/>\nstacking.<br \/>\n\u2022POSTER: Day of doctoral students from the doctoral schools of Rennes. Subject: The<br \/>\ndielectric properties of granular media&#8221; Rennes, France 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIOGRAPHY Dr.Houda Mint Babah Born: 21 October 1982 in Nouakchott Nationality: Mauritanian Married, 3 children PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Currently: On 6 August, she was appointed Minister in charge of Education and the Reform of the Education System. * Advisor to the Prime Minister in charge of National Education, Education Higher Education and Scientific Research * Lecturer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18524","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29186,"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18524\/revisions\/29186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ami.mr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}