Abdoulaye Ndiaye has experience in wetlands management and waterbird monitoring, poverty reduction and climate change adaptation in more than 30 countries with a focus in West, Central and East Africa.
During his professional career with Wetlands International Abdoulaye worked as a trainer in wetland management and developed the educational curricula. He mobilized funds, designed and managed projects. Examples of projects are: capacity building for wetland and waterbird monitoring in Africa, design and implementation of the first wetland management plan in West Africa for Djoudj National Park, Senegal and projects on poverty alleviation for local communities around wetlands in Senegal, Mali and Guinea Bissau.
He won the 2015 AEWA for the conservation of waterbirds in Africa with the Inter villager Association of Ndiael.
Colonel Abdoulaye Ndiaye was the Chairman of the local Organizing Committee of the 14th Panafrican Ornithological Congress (PAOC) held in Dakar, Sénégal in October 2016.