| Post: | Chief |
| Body: | the General Staff |
| Native Name: | French: Chefs d'État-Major général des armées |
| Incumbent: | Mbaye Cissé |
| Incumbentsince: | 6 April 2023 |
| Department: | Armed Forces of Senegal |
| Style: | Sir |
| Reports To: | Minister of Defense |
| Residence: | Dakar |
| Seat: | Dakar |
| Appointer: | President of Senegal |
| Termlength: | No fixed length |
| Constituting Instrument: | Constitution of Senegal |
| Precursor: | Chief of Staff of the Federation of Mali |
| Formation: | 1960 |
| First: | Amadou Fall |
The Chief of the Defense Staff is the professional head of the Armed Forces of Senegal. He/she is responsible for the administration and the operational control of the military of Senegal. The current chief is General of Air Corps Mbaye Cissé.
He is responsible for the preparation of military plans and operations:
He directly exercises his authority over:
The directors of the specialized services departments placed for employment with him are:
| Portrait | Name | Term of office | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
| 1 | General Amadou Fall | 1960 | 1960 | years | [1] | ||
| 2 | Colonel | 1960 | 19 August 1960 | years | |||
| 3 | Colonel | 20 August 1960 | 1962 | years | |||
| 4 | Major general | 17 December 1962 | 30 June 1972 | ||||
| (3) | Colonel | 1 July 1972 | 30 June 1984 | ||||
| 5 | General Joseph Louis Tavarez de Souza | 1 July 1984 | 31 May 1988 | ||||
| 6 | General of air corps | 31 May 1988 | 30 June 1993 | ||||
| 7 | General | 30 June 1993 | 30 June 1996 | years | |||
| 8 | General of the army | 1 July 1996 | 31 December 1997 | ||||
| 9 | Major general | 1 January 1998 | 30 April 2000 | ||||
| 10 | Lieutenant general Babacar Gaye | 1 May 2000 | 12 August 2003 | ||||
| 11 | Lieutenant general | 12 August 2003 | 31 May 2006 | ||||
| 12 | Lieutenant general | 1 June 2006 | 30 October 2012 | ||||
| 13 | General Mamadou Sow | 30 October 2012 | 31 December 2016 | ||||
| 14 | General | 1 January 2017 | 31 December 2019 | ||||
| 15 | General of air corps Birame Diop | 1 January 2020 | 1 April 2021 | [2] | |||
| 16 | Army corps general Cheikh Wade | 1 April 2021 | 6 April 2023 | [3] | |||
| 17 | General of air corps Mbaye Cissé | 6 April 2023 | Incumbent | [4] | |||