Salimata Traoré is an Associate Professor at the Economic Sciences Research and Training Unit of Thomas Sankara University, Burkina Faso. She specializes in Development Economics, with research interests spanning agricultural economics, the economics of education, impact evaluation, gender, poverty analysis, financial inclusion, and agricultural finance.

She is also a researcher at the Centre d’Études et de Documentation en Recherche Économique et Sociale (CEDRES) and a member of the Agricultural Development and Food Processing research team. Salimata has authored and co-authored several scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals.