Vera Songwe

Vera Songwe
Vera Songwe in 2020
United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
In office
August 2017 – August 2022
Secretary-General
Regional Director of West and Central Africa for the International Finance Corporation (IFC)
In office
July 2015 – August 2017
Personal details
Nationality Cameroon
Alma materUniversité Catholique de Louvain (PhD) (MA)
University of Michigan (BA)
OccupationEconomist and Banker
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Vera Songwe is an economist and banking executive from Cameroon who worked for the World Bank from 1998 to 2015, and in 2015–2017 served as Western and Central Africa's regional director for the International Finance Corporation.[1][2] She was the first woman to head the UN's Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) at the level of Under-Secretary-General.[3] Songwe currently[when?] serves as a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution's Africa Growth Initiative.[4]

  1. ^ "Young, managers, inventive and competent, they are the pride of Cameroon". Business in Cameroon. 22 December 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  2. ^ Nations, United. "Vera Songwe". United Nations. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Vera Songwe: Closing the Tech Gender Gap". IMF. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  4. ^ "Africa Growth Initiative".