Vera Songwe

Vera Songwe (2020)

Vera Songwe (* 1968 ) is a Cameroonian economist who has been Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) since 2017 .

Life

After attending Our Ladies of Lourdes College in Bamenda, Vera Songwe began studying economics and political science at the University of Michigan , each of which she completed with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Economics and BA Political Science). She completed postgraduate studies in law and economics at the Université catholique de Louvain with a Master of Arts (MA Law and Economics) and a Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies in economics and political science. In 1996 she obtained a doctorate in philosophy ( Ph.D. ) in business mathematics at the Center for Operational Research and Econometrics at the Université Catholique de Louvain with a dissertation entitled Price selection mechanisms in imperfectly competitive economies .

Vera Songwe then began her professional career as an economist at the World Bank , where she was Senior Country Coordinator and Senior Economist for the Philippines between 2005 and 2008 and then from 2008 to 2011 she was a consultant to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala , the Nigerian Managing Director of the World Bank for Africa , Europe , Central Asia and South Asia . After she had since 2011. Senior Visiting Scholar ( Non-resident Senior Fellow ) for Global Development and the African Growth Initiative in Washington, DC -based think tank Brookings Institution . Between 2012 and 2015 she also acted as Country Director of the World Bank for Senegal , Cape Verde , Gambia , Guinea-Bissau and Mauritania and then took on the post of Regional Director for West Africa and Central Africa at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in Washington from 2015 to 2017 , DC

On April 13, 2017, Vera Songwe was appointed by UN Secretary General António Guterres as the successor to Carlos Lopes from Guinea-Bissau as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) based in Addis Ababa .

publication

• Price selection mechanisms in imperfectly competitive economies , dissertation Université catholique de Louvain, 1996

Web links

• Secretary-General Appoints Vera Songwe of Cameroon Executive Secretary of Economic Commission for Africa on the homepage of the United Nations (April 13, 2017)
• Proof of publication ( Open Library )