Stergomena Tax

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Stergomena Tax

Stergomena Lawrence Tax (born July 6, 1960 in Magu, Mwanza , Tanganjika ; also Stergomena Lawrence Tax-Bamwenda ) is a politician from Tanzania . She is Executive Secretary (approximately: "Secretary General") of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

Life

Tax attended Lake Secondary School in Mwanza . In 1985 she graduated in Business Administration . From 1987 to 1991 she completed her studies at the University of Dar es Salaam , from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce in Finances . From 1995 she attended the University of Tsukuba in Japan , where she obtained a master’s degree in Policy Management and Development Economics and, in 2002, a doctorate in International Development . In her doctoral thesis, she questioned the effectiveness of development aid in sub-Saharan Africa .

From then on she worked in various positions in the government, initially in the Ministry of Finance. From 2006 to 2008 she worked as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Marketing (for example: “State Secretary in the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Marketing”). From 2008 to 2013 she held the same position in the Ministry of East African Cooperation (for example: "Ministry for East African Cooperation"). In August 2013, at a SADC meeting in Lilongwe, she was the first woman to be elected Secretary General, the highest-ranking position at SADC level. She succeeded the Mozambican Tomaz Salomão . Her tasks include developing the region and participating in conflict resolution, for example during the state crisis in Lesotho in 2014 .

Stergomena Tax is married and has two children. She lives at the site of the SADC headquarters in Gaborone , Botswana .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b portrait at sadc.int (English), accessed on July 6, 2015
  2. ↑ a b Portrait at allafrica.com (English), accessed on July 6, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Tax, Stergomena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tax-Bamwenda, Stergomena Lawrence (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tanzanian politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Magu, Mwanza , Tanganyika