Demba Moussa Dembélé is an economist and researcher, President of the African Association for Research and Cooperation in Support of Endogenous Development (ARCADE) and since 2013 organizer of the "Economic Saturdays" an ongoing series of conferences organized in Dakar. 

He has extensively published on the debt issue in the Senegalese and African media. In the 1990s and early 2000s he was involved in the Jubilee South movement for the cancellation of Third World Debt.  Demba Moussa Dembélé is member of the Senegalese Social Forum (SSF) and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA).