Malado Kaba was born on 22 March 1971 in Montserrado county, Monrovia, Liberia. She and her parents moved to France when she was 3 months old.
She spent her childhood and teenage years between Paris and the suburbs. Kaba attended the Lycée Honoré de Balzac in Paris where she obtained her baccalauréat in 1989.[2][3] She graduated from Paris Nanterre University in 1994 with a degree in development economics and a degree in international economics in 1994.[4] She also holds a certificate from the Goethe Institute as a proficient user of the German language.
In 2014, Kaba became country-head of the Africa Governance Initiative of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.[4]
Kaba was appointed Minister of Finance by PresidentAlpha Condé on 6 January 2016, the first woman in the role and one of seven women appointed to cabinet.[4][6]
In May 2022, Malado Kaba was appointed Director of the Gender, Women and Civil Society Department of the African Development Bank (AfDB). The appointment to her position takes effect from June 16, 2022.[8]