Marie-Louise Correa


Dr. Marie-Louise Correa is a Senegalese politician, a doctor and former minister of the Senegalese government, who was elected in July 2002 as president of the World Scout Committee following the 36th World Scout Conference in Thessaloníki, Greece, from 2002 to 2005. She had served as chair of the Africa Scout Region until 1999.

Background

Correa was Minister of Scientific Research and Technology between 1994 and 1998 in the government formed by Habib Thiam. and then Minister of Labor and Employment between 1998 and 2000 in the Mamadou Lamine Loum government.
In Senegal, she was National Commissioner for Cub Scouting, later becoming President of the Confédération Sénégalaise du Scoutisme.
She was chosen to carry the Olympic Torch at the opening of the Olympic Games, in recognition of "the contribution of the Scout Movement and its ideals to the Olympic movement working for peace and understanding in the world."
She is married and the mother of four children.