Barthélemy Kéré created his own law firm, which bears his name in January 1993, and in 2003, he was elected President of the Bar Association of Burkina Faso for a three-year term.

In 2006, he was nominated Member of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of Burkina Faso, representing the Catholic Community. He was elected President of the CENI of Burkina Faso in August 2011. In this role, Mr. Kéré successfully ensured the leadership of the during the transition phase and in particular during the 2015 presidential and legislative elections and the 2016 municipal election. In this context, ECES collaborated with Mr. Kéré within the framework of the Project in Support to the Credibility and Transparency of Elections in Burkina Faso (PACTE-BF www.pacte-burkinafaso.eu ) which provided multidimensional support to the INEC of Burkina Faso.

Kéré has also carried out a number of electoral observation missions, notably in Brazil, in France on the occasion of the European elections, in Ivory Coast and in Nigeria. He also participated to exchanges of experience on electoral administration, and took part to workshops organised by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the International Organisation of Francophonie (OIF) and the World Association of Election Management Bodies (A-WEB). He also contributed to a number of forums, workshops, focus groups on a number of subjects related to the electoral process, such as the management of electoral violence or the transparent financing of elections.

Kéré also contributed to pre-electoral and exploratory missions, electoral technical assistance missions and several electoral assessment missions. The longstanding and solid experience cumulated by Mr. Kéré, in the role of lawyer, member and then President of the CENI of Burkina Faso, as well as his in depth knowledge of the electoral field, will ensure the necessary expertise to implement  political dialogue and advocacy activities within the framework of the Project in Support of National Electoral Observation in Gabon.