Vera Songwe
| Vera Songwe link Twitter (Economist) | |
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| Nationality | Cameroon |
| Alma mater | Université Catholique de Louvain ,University of Michigan |
Signatory of the Document:Uniting Behind A People's Vaccine Against COVID-19. | |
Vera Songwe is an economist and banking executive from Cameroon who worked for the World Bank from 1998 to 2015. She was a signatory of the Document:Uniting Behind A People's Vaccine Against COVID-19.
Activities
Songwe took up her role as the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) on 3 August 2017 at the level of Under-Secretary-General.[1]
In June 2020, Songwe and others – Nobel laureates in Economics, architects, chefs and leaders of international organizations – signed the appeal in favour of the purple economy ("Towards a cultural renaissance of the economy"), published in Corriere della Sera[2], El País and Le Monde.
She is also a member of the African Union Institutional reform team under the direction of the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, and a board member of the African Leadership Network, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, and ID4Africa.[3]
In early 2021, Songwe was appointed by the G20 to the High Level Independent Panel (HLIP) on financing the global commons for pandemic preparedness and response, co-chaired by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Lawrence Summers.[4]
On 22 August 2022, Songewe announced her resignation from UNECA.
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References
- ↑ https://www.uneca.org/pages/biography
- ↑ https://www.corriere.it/cultura/20_giugno_07/per-rinascimento-culturale-dell-economia-dcacbef2-a803-11ea-b900-84da2a1f22a9.shtml
- ↑ Advisory Board ID4Africa.
- ↑ Ministry of Economy and FinanceThe G20 establishes a High Level Independent Panel on financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response Ministry of Economy and Finance, press release of January 27, 2021.
