Graduate from the highest teacher training school ‘’Ecole Normale Superieure’’ (ENSup) of Bamako, Amadou O.Traore is also an alumni of Monterey Institute of  International Studies (MIIS) in California where he studied English for Specific Purposes (ESP). 

He worked for Peace Corps as a language instructor for 8 years. Amadou also served at Save the Children as Documentation and Training Officer before leading ‘’Building with Books’’ currently ‘’Buildon’’ as Country Director. He worked for Intervida and Oxfam as Education Program Manager before joining USAID in October 2013 where he retired in December 31st, 2021 after serving as Senior Education Policy and Strategy Advisor in Mali. Amadou joined SunRoots Energy with a large field experience in community and youth development, management of education programs and adult training. He published ‘’BEEJEKAN’’, Easy Bambara: self-instruction book in Bambara and ‘’KOLEKAN” a manual of locutions, idioms, and proverbs in Bambara and he collaborated in the composition and edition of ‘’The Printed Words/Taalvorming in Mali’’.