Landry Ouedraogo

Landry Ouedraogo is a policy analyst, tax and extractives, with IISD’s Economic Law and Policy Program, working on the IGF Secretariat’s Global Mining Tax Initiative. 

Landry is an attorney with extensive experience in investment, mining, energy, and fiscal law, skilled in handling complex legal issues across public–private partnerships and the private sector. Before joining IISD, he held senior roles in a renowned law firm based in Burkina Faso, then as a consultant, providing legal counsel on tax incentives, corporate governance, and investment structuring, particularly in extractive industries.

Landry holds a master of laws in international construction contracts from Paris II-Panthéon Assas University, a master’s degree in extractive industry development policies and management from Thomas Sankara University, a master's degree in business law from St Thomas d’Aquin University and one in international law from the Graduate Institute of International Law and Human Rights of Ouagadougou (ISDIH). He also completed specialized studies in African mining law through the World Bank and the African Legal Support Facility.

Based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Landry is fluent in French, Moore, and English.