Victoria Kwakwa is the Regional Vice President for Eastern and Southern Africa. An economist and development expert with over 30 years of experience, Dr. Kwakwa leads the Bank’s engagement with 26 countries. She oversees an active portfolio of 381 operations totaling $81 billion and an extensive program of cutting-edge analytic work, technical assistance, and policy advice.
Dr. Kwakwa has put resilience of economies, of societies, and of people in the region at the center of her work. Her specific priorities include accelerating access to clean energy, closing the gaps in access to clean water and sanitation, improving learning outcomes, keeping teenage girls in school, and increasing access to and use of digital technology. She actively pursues partnerships with other development actors to help countries solve complex development challenges and achieve impact at scale. Her work has spanned a wide range of development issues including rural development, infrastructure services provision and financing, climate resilience and mitigation, developing human capital, and leveraging the potential of urbanization for development. She has built enduring partnerships with private sector, civil society and other international actors and has demonstrated her ability to mobilize these diverse stakeholders behind shared interests.
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