Vera Songwe
Cameroonian economist and banking executive · Cameroon · On the map · Academics · Born 1968 · age 58
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.
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She was the first woman to head the UN's Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) at the level of Under-Secretary-General. Songwe currently serves as a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution's Africa Growth Initiative.
Country
Cameroon
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1968 · age 58
