Vera Songwe is a rising star in the World Bank. An adviser to the managing director of the bank and former Nigerian finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, She is based in Dakar and a Cameroonian who has worked for the World Bank since 1998

Forbes listed her in 2013 as one of the "20 Young Power Women in Africa", and the following year the Institut Choiseul for International Politics and Geoeconomics chose her as one of their "African leaders of tomorrow".


Songwe grew up in Bamenda, in the north of Cameroon, where she attended Our Ladies of Lourdes College, a private Catholic school, and thus formed part of the local English-speaking elite. She obtained her PhD in mathematical economics at the Université catholique de Louvain, in Belgium, and afterward migrated to the United States, where she worked at the University of Michigan for three years.

She accepted a position working for the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and simultaneously had a visiting professor's appointment at the University of Southern California. In 1998, as stated earlier, she joined the World Bank, where she worked in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) unit, covering Morocco and Tunisia. Over the subsequent years, she filled several roles in the PREM unit for East Asia and the Pacific region.

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She will not be different from others

Nice, Here is hoping she becomes our next finance minister

That is one hell of a CV. This lady's definitely going places...