Category: Profile

The Trust Fund Committee of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) announced, on November 27, the appointment of Tariye Gbadegesin as Chief Executive Officer, effective March 2024. She replaces Mafalda Duarte, who left in July 2023 to lead the Green Climate Fund. A US and Nigerian national, Tariye Gbadegesin was selected following a highly competitive international […]

Currently Auditor General of South Africa, she has been appointed External Auditor of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for a period of six years, from 2024 to 2029. Tsakani Maluleke was elected on November 16 by the members of Unesco’s various committees and subsidiary bodies. The other candidates were from Chile, […]

The lawyer, of Ugandan and Australian nationality, has been appointed Standard Chartered Bank’s Global General Counsel for Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking. She has also been appointed Standard Chartered Bank’s General Counsel for Europe and the Americas. She will be based in Singapore. Prior to her appointment, Samallie Kiyingi was, since April 2017, General Counsel of […]

International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, announced on Wednesday October 25, it has appointed Cláudia Conceição as Regional Director for Southern Africa. She will be based in Johannesburg. IFC, it’s explained, is a strong partner with governments and the private sector across southern Africa, deploying investments and advisory services in […]

Dalberg Advisors, a subsidiary of strategy and policy consultancy Dalberg Group, announced on 2 October the appointment of Lillian Kidane as its new Regional Director for Africa. Dalberg Advisors is a strategy consultancy that works with the public, private and philanthropic sectors. Dalberg Advisors has over 550 employees in more than 25 locations in Africa, […]

President Joe Biden announced, on September 26, the inaugural members of the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States within the U.S. Department of State. These twelve leaders have all played important roles in strengthening United States-Africa relations and shaping United States foreign policy toward Africa. They reflect the diversity of […]

On Monday September 18, the Condé Nast group announced the appointment of Chioma Nnadi as head of editorial content for British Vogue. She will start overseeing British Vogue on October 9 and will be based in London. She replaces Edward Enninful, Vogue’s British Editor-in-Chief and Vogue’s European Editorial Director. Nnadi has spent thirteen years at […]

The appointment of La Liga’s new Africa General Manager was announced at two events organized by the league on September 12 at The Venue in Morningside, Johannesburg, and on September 14 at the Young Blood Gallery in Cape Town. In Africa, La Liga teams are present at the Celta Vigo academy in Evaton (South Africa) […]

Professor Abdoulaye Diabaté from Burkina Faso, principal investigator at Target Malaria Burkina Faso and a leading figure in medical entomology and parasitology, is one of 10 global winners of the prestigious Falling Walls Award for Science and Innovation. Professor Abdoulaye Diabaté is head of medical entomology and parasitology at the Burkina Faso Health Sciences Research […]

The nun, originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, was awarded the prize for her commitment to migrant rescue operations in Lampedusa, which saved the lives of 47,282 migrants of African origin, reports Vatican Radio. She was awarded the prize at the 15th edition of the Mediterranean Journalists Festival in Otranto, Italy, which closed on […]

On 6 September, the Director-General of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Gilbert Fossoun Houngbo of Togo, announced the appointment of Fanfan Rwanyindo Kayirangwa of Rwanda as Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Africa of the ILO, effective 1 October. She will be based in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The only tripartite U.N. agency, since 1919 the […]

The lawyer was elected at the elective general meeting of the Côte d’Ivoire Bar Association, held on Saturday July 29, 2023. She will take office in October 2024 for a 3-year term, becoming the first woman to hold this position within this professional order created in 1959. The Côte d’Ivoire Bar Association brings together lawyers […]