Ousmane Baldé was a Guinea

Guinea

Guinea , officially the Republic of Guinea , is a country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea , it is today sometimes called Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from its neighbour Guinea-Bissau. Guinea is divided into eight administrative regions and subdivided into thirty-three prefectures...

n economist and politician. For a long time he was President of the Central Bank of the Republic of Guinea

Central Bank of the Republic of Guinea

The Central Bank of the Republic of Guinea is the central bank of Guinea. The bank is located in the capital city of Conakry.The bank was established on 1 March 1960. Ousmane Baldé was president of the bank in the 1960s before his execution in 1971...

 and served as a Minister of Finance. He was arrested in 1970 for conspiring in the Portuguese invasion of Guinea and sentenced to be hanged without trial in 1971 along with Ibrahima Barry and Magassouba Morida and other previously respected figures.