{"id":3046,"date":"2021-09-07T08:22:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T08:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/world-bank-appoints-new-country-director-for-south-africa-botswana-lesotho-namibia-eswatini"},"modified":"2021-09-07T08:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T08:22:36","slug":"world-bank-appoints-new-country-director-for-south-africa-botswana-lesotho-namibia-eswatini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/world-bank-appoints-new-country-director-for-south-africa-botswana-lesotho-namibia-eswatini","title":{"rendered":"World Bank Appoints New Country Director for South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia &amp; Eswatini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\">Lesotho<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>MsMarie Fran\u00e7oise Marie-Nelly is the newly appointed World Bank Country Director for Lesotho, Botswana, Eswatini, South Africa and Namibia. . She replaces Mr Paul Noumba Um and joins the Pretoria office today, Monday<\/p>\n<p>16 September 2019. Ms Marie-Nelly has extensive experience working in the Middle<\/p>\n<p>East, North Africa and Sub-Saharan regions in countries with diverse set of contexts and different development needs and trajectories. Prior to taking up this post, Ms Marie-Nelly was Country Director for the Maghreb and Malta.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cI am<\/p>\n<p>excited by the move to the Southern Africa region,\u201d<\/b> said Ms Marie-Nelly. I look forward to deepening the World Bank engagement working together with<\/p>\n<p>government counterparts, key stakeholders including the youth and development partners to support countries\u2019 efforts to achieve their development priorities in<\/p>\n<p>line with the World Bank\u2019s goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity\u201d. Ms Marie-Nelly will focus on overseeing the World Bank\u2019s policy dialogue and strategic engagements with<\/p>\n<p>the governments and key partners and will lead the World Bank teams to identify innovative development solutions for all clients. Since joining the World Bank in 1994, Ms Marie-Nelly has held<\/p>\n<p>a variety of positions focused on public enterprise restructuring, support to private sector development, regional integration, and management of the oil<\/p>\n<p>sector. Before assuming the position of World Bank Country Director for the Maghreb and Malta, Ms. Marie-Nelly held a number of leadership positions, including Country<\/p>\n<p>Director for Nigeria from 2011-2015, Country Director for the two Congo (Brazzaville and DRC) from 2008 to 2011, Director for the World Bank Group Program related to the Chad Petroleum and the<\/p>\n<p>Chad-Cameroon pipeline project from 2004 to 2007 and Director for the regional integration program in Africa from 2000 to 2004. A French National from Martinique, Ms.<\/p>\n<p>Marie-Nelly is a Certified Public Accountant, a graduate of the Ecole Sup\u00e9rieure de Commerce de Nantes (France) and Bowling Green University (Ohio, USA).<\/p>\n<p>She has also completed several management programs at Harvard University in the US. She worked for many international firms and was advisor to several governments before joining the World Bank.<\/p>\n<p><b>World Bank<\/b><\/p>\n<p>: Zandile Ratshitanga,<\/p>\n<p>+ 27 73 888 5962, zratshitanga@worldbank. org For more information<\/p>\n<p>on the World Bank\u2019s work in Africa visit: www. worldbank. org\/africa For more information about the World Bank in South Africa visit: www. worldbank. org.<\/p>\n<p>southafrica Friend us on Facebook: http:\/\/www. facebook. com\/worldbankafrica Follow us on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter. com\/WorldBankAfrica Watch our videos on YouTube: http:\/\/www. youtube. com\/worldbank<\/p>\n<p><b>News Release<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. MsMarie Fran\u00e7oise Marie-Nelly is the newly appointed World Bank Country Director for Lesotho, Botswana, Eswatini, South Africa and Namibia. . She replaces Mr Paul Noumba Um and joins the Pretoria office today, Monday 16 September 2019. 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